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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 372

May 25, 200821 counties in Kansas; 32 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 25, 2008, 11:21 PM CDT for 21 counties in Kansas; 32 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 25, 2008, 11:21 PM CDT (04:21 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 2008, 5:34 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
1.5 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 53 counties

Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Labette County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Adair County, MO, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Dade County, MO, Greene County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Polk County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Saline County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Vernon County, MO

What SPC expected

The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.

Two or more tornadoes
20%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
2%
Ten or more severe wind reports
40%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
30%
Ten or more severe hail reports
30%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
10%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
70%

Warnings issued inside it

6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 11:21 PM CDTTornado WarningICTButler39 min
May 25, 11:32 PM CDTTornado WarningICTButler28 min
May 25, 11:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChase, Elk, Greenwood68 min
May 25, 11:47 PM CDTTornado WarningICTElk, Greenwood28 min
May 26, 1:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFBourbon, Crawford57 min
May 26, 2:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFVernon34 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 115 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2008-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1985 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 2008-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 87 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1985 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1499 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
3.6

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 7:54 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBoone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, Hancock, Henderson and 13 more6 hr
May 25, 9:23 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoone, Carroll, DeKalb, Henry, Jo Daviess, Kane and 8 more67 min
May 25, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBond, Calhoun, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles and 19 more4 hr
May 25, 10:18 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlexander, Bond, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Crawford and 30 more117 min
May 25, 10:59 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrown, Cass, Champaign, Cook, DeWitt, DuPage and 28 more61 min
May 25, 11:28 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBureau, Carroll, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Lee and 5 more62 min
May 25, 11:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCook, DuPage, Ford, Fulton, Grundy, Iroquois and 13 more5 hr
May 26, 3:13 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFord, Iroquois62 min
May 25, 8:07 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Barber, Barton, Brown, Butler, Chase and 31 more113 min
May 25, 8:46 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 32 more3 hr
May 25, 9:29 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Pratt2 hr
May 26, 12:10 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 10 more95 min
May 26, 2:42 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCherokee, Crawford, Labette93 min
May 26, 1:31 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford and 14 more59 min
May 26, 1:46 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clark and 29 more6 hr
May 26, 3:39 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellsworth and 19 more96 min
May 26, 6:39 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clark and 26 more2 hr
May 26, 12:10 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCPemiscot65 min
May 26, 5:14 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDunklin, Pemiscot3 hr

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.