Alert archive / Kansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 385
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 29, 2008, 1:12 PM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 2008, 1:12 PM MDT (19:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2008, 11:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 53 counties
Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Morton County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Chaves County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Union County, NM, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Bailey County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Swisher County, TX
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 184 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:57 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
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- 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
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
37 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 1:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Logan, Wallace, Wichita | 49 min |
| May 29, 2:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Thomas | 51 min |
| May 29, 2:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins, Thomas | 39 min |
| May 29, 2:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca, Guadalupe | 67 min |
| May 29, 2:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Harding, Union | 66 min |
| May 29, 2:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 29 min |
| May 29, 2:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas | 66 min |
| May 29, 2:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Logan, Wallace, Wichita | 48 min |
| May 29, 3:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Thomas, Wallace | 49 min |
| May 29, 3:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | De Baca, Guadalupe, Quay, Roosevelt | 55 min |
| May 29, 3:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam, Hartley, Moore, Sherman | 64 min |
| May 29, 3:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 32 min |
| May 29, 3:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 59 min |
| May 29, 4:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 33 min |
| May 29, 4:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas | 52 min |
| May 29, 4:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 34 min |
| May 29, 4:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, De Baca, Quay, Roosevelt | 66 min |
| May 29, 4:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Sheridan, Thomas | 45 min |
| May 29, 4:42 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sheridan | 33 min |
| May 29, 4:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, De Baca, Roosevelt | 60 min |
| May 29, 5:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 58 min |
| May 29, 5:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Quay | 14 min |
| May 29, 5:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford | 64 min |
| May 29, 5:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves, De Baca, Roosevelt | 62 min |
| May 29, 5:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Quay | 44 min |
| May 29, 5:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Thomas, Wallace | 54 min |
| May 29, 6:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 38 min |
| May 29, 6:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver, Texas | 33 min |
| May 29, 6:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 46 min |
| May 29, 6:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Sheridan, Thomas | 33 min |
| May 29, 7:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey | 46 min |
| May 29, 7:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Logan, Wallace, Wichita | 41 min |
| May 29, 8:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Greeley, Logan, Wichita | 27 min |
| May 29, 8:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Wichita | 18 min |
| May 29, 8:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Wichita | 37 min |
| May 29, 9:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Ness, Scott | 57 min |
| May 29, 10:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Hamilton, Kearny | 54 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 29, 11:24 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Logan, Weld | 96 min |
| May 29, 12:10 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Prowers | 65 min |
| May 29, 12:33 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Yuma | 7 hr |
| May 29, 5:49 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Prowers | 56 min |
| May 29, 12:44 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Norton, Phillips, Rawlins, Sheridan | 61 min |
| May 29, 1:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cloud, Decatur, Ellis, Ellsworth, Gove, Graham and 14 more | 8 hr |
| May 29, 4:55 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Dickinson, Ellis and 29 more | 35 min |
| May 29, 5:43 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Clay, Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie and 2 more | 7 hr |
| May 28, 6:56 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bernalillo, Chaves, Colfax, Curry, De Baca, Eddy and 17 more | 64 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.