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Tornado Watch 339

May 22, 200850 counties in Kansas; 17 counties in Nebraska; 22 counties in Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 22, 2008, 9:11 PM CDT for 50 counties in Kansas; 17 counties in Nebraska; 22 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 22, 2008, 9:11 PM CDT (02:11 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2008, 4:57 AM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 89 counties

Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Clark County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Ford County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Ness County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Trego County, KS, Washington County, KS, Adams County, NE, Buffalo County, NE, Clay County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Franklin County, NE, Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Harlan County, NE, Kearney County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Phelps County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE, York County, NE, Alfalfa County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Creek County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, Noble County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:12 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: 60%
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: 20%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis, Harper, Woods, Woodward	62 min
May 22, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips, Smith	44 min
May 22, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips, Rooks	47 min
May 22, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips, Rooks, Smith	29 min
May 22, 9:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Trego	30 min
May 22, 9:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Rooks	30 min
May 22, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Buffalo, Dawson, Franklin, Kearney, Phelps and 1 more	44 min
May 22, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Smith	52 min
May 22, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Canadian, Kingfisher, Logan	65 min
May 22, 10:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Trego	41 min
May 22, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Hall, Hamilton, Kearney and 1 more	49 min
May 22, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper, Woods, Woodward	49 min
May 22, 10:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Phillips, Rooks	29 min
May 22, 10:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Phillips, Rooks	35 min
May 22, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Hall, Howard, Sherman, Valley	50 min
May 22, 10:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Clay, Nuckolls, Webster	42 min
May 22, 10:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Phillips	33 min
May 22, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Clay, Hall, Hamilton, Merrick, Webster	45 min
May 22, 10:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche	55 min
May 22, 10:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woods, Woodward	38 min
May 22, 10:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Canadian, Kingfisher, Logan, Oklahoma, Payne	63 min
May 22, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	45 min
May 22, 11:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Greeley, Hall, Hamilton, Howard, Merrick, Nance and 2 more	38 min
May 22, 11:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Phillips, Smith	32 min
May 22, 11:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Woods	47 min
May 22, 11:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Smith	29 min
May 22, 11:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Logan, Oklahoma, Payne	64 min
May 23, 12:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips, Rooks, Smith	23 min
May 23, 12:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley	53 min
May 23, 12:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Smith	37 min
May 23, 12:08 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Grant	37 min
May 23, 12:22 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Smith	6 hr
May 23, 12:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Comanche	63 min
May 23, 12:28 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Phillips, Rooks	6 hr
May 23, 12:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grant	48 min
May 23, 12:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Sumner	28 min
May 23, 12:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Payne	48 min
May 23, 1:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Lincoln, Payne	48 min
May 23, 1:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grant	48 min
May 23, 2:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Grant	30 min
May 23, 2:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harper, Sumner	57 min
May 23, 2:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Rush	47 min
May 23, 2:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grant, Kay	41 min
May 23, 2:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	67 min
May 23, 3:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	45 min
May 23, 4:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	58 min
May 23, 4:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick	36 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 157 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2192 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1576 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 285 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 313 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.9
Supercell composite: 17.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 8:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cheyenne and 61 more	29 min
May 22, 11:43 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clark and 45 more	62 min
May 23, 2:01 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay and 36 more	89 min
May 23, 4:22 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Butler, Comanche, Cowley, Edwards and 21 more	53 min
May 23, 9:53 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Cheyenne, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth and 33 more	67 min
May 23, 1:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Finney, Ford, Gove, Grant, Gray and 12 more	2 hr
May 23, 2:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	Barber, Barton, Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur and 33 more	7 hr
May 23, 6:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Decatur and 33 more	57 min
May 22, 9:24 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arthur, Banner, Blaine, Box Butte, Brown, Cherry and 15 more	66 min
May 22, 10:34 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boone, Butler, Cass, Colfax, Dodge, Douglas and 16 more	56 min
May 23, 1:13 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Kimball	92 min
May 23, 1:41 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Kimball, Morrill and 2 more	6 hr
May 23, 5:26 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Boone, Buffalo, Butler, Clay, Colfax and 23 more	64 min
May 23, 6:02 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel, Kimball and 3 more	58 min
May 23, 6:37 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Deuel, Garden and 4 more	23 min
May 23, 2:49 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beaver, Ellis, Harper, Roger Mills, Woodward	116 min
May 23, 5:09 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey and 11 more	8 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.