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Tornado Watch 408
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 26, 2006, 5:38 PM CDT for 16 counties in Kansas; 28 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2006, 5:38 PM CDT (22:38 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2006, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 44 counties
Decatur County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Logan County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Norton County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Smith County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Clay County, NE, Custer County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Frontier County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Greeley County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Howard County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Logan County, NE, McPherson County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Sherman County, NE, Valley County, NE, Webster County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 60%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Sheridan | 66 min |
| May 26, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Norton | 55 min |
| May 26, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 29 min |
| May 26, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Smith | 54 min |
| May 26, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Norton | 39 min |
| May 26, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 23 min |
| May 26, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Trego | 43 min |
| May 26, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 25 min |
| May 26, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 55 min |
| May 26, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sheridan | 38 min |
| May 26, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 67 min |
| May 26, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham | 54 min |
| May 26, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nuckolls | 61 min |
| May 26, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Rooks | 48 min |
| May 26, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 60 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 7:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 12 more | 95 min |
| May 25, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Clark, Comanche, Cowley and 18 more | 7 hr |
| May 25, 10:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Barber, Barton, Bourbon, Butler, Chase and 31 more | 118 min |
| May 26, 2:12 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk and 4 more | 93 min |
| May 26, 3:16 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson | 119 min |
| May 26, 5:31 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary, Jewell and 14 more | 2 hr |
| May 26, 4:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Greeley, Sherman, Wallace, Wichita | 6 hr |
| May 26, 4:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny and 4 more | 96 min |
| May 26, 3:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel, Garden and 5 more | 94 min |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Nebraska, 2006Tornado Watches in Kansas, 2006Every tornado watch in 2006
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.