Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches in 2008
Tornado Watch 357
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 25, 2008, 12:39 PM CDT for 21 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 15 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 2008, 12:39 PM CDT (17:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2008, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 39 counties
Clark County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:42 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
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 40%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
31 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 1:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley, Oldham | 66 min |
| May 25, 2:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Scott | 62 min |
| May 25, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley, Oldham | 63 min |
| May 25, 2:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Lane, Scott | 51 min |
| May 25, 2:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush | 39 min |
| May 25, 2:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hartley | 37 min |
| May 25, 3:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Lane, Ness, Trego | 46 min |
| May 25, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Rush, Trego | 47 min |
| May 25, 3:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ness, Pawnee, Rush | 40 min |
| May 25, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam, Hartley, Moore, Sherman | 66 min |
| May 25, 3:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hartley | 27 min |
| May 25, 3:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hartley, Moore | 49 min |
| May 25, 3:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Rush | 39 min |
| May 25, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ness, Trego | 45 min |
| May 25, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam, Hansford, Hartley, Hutchinson, Moore, Sherman | 60 min |
| May 25, 4:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 39 min |
| May 25, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Ness, Scott, Trego | 62 min |
| May 25, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley | 55 min |
| May 25, 4:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ness, Trego | 32 min |
| May 25, 4:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hansford, Hutchinson, Moore | 49 min |
| May 25, 4:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 39 min |
| May 25, 4:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Rush, Trego | 37 min |
| May 25, 4:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 48 min |
| May 25, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 59 min |
| May 25, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford, Hartley, Hutchinson, Moore, Sherman | 57 min |
| May 25, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hutchinson, Roberts | 65 min |
| May 25, 5:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Ellis, Rush | 46 min |
| May 25, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Ellis, Ness, Rush, Trego | 40 min |
| May 25, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam, Hartley, Moore, Sherman | 55 min |
| May 25, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Ness, Scott, Trego | 49 min |
| May 25, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 60 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 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 146 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 359 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -263 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1676 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 9:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Harper, Labette, Montgomery and 2 more | 56 min |
| May 24, 11:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Butler, Cowley, Harper, Harvey, Kingman and 5 more | 4 hr |
| May 25, 3:05 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Harvey, Sedgwick, Sumner | 55 min |
| May 25, 11:55 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Grant, Haskell, Meade, Morton, Seward, Stevens | 65 min |
| May 25, 12:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Crawford, Labette | 58 min |
| May 25, 1:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee | 7 hr |
| May 25, 2:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 30 more | 67 min |
| May 25, 2:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery | 56 min |
| May 25, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 30 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 5:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant and 11 more | 61 min |
| May 25, 5:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 21 more | 7 hr |
| May 25, 6:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee | 114 min |
| May 24, 8:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jackson | 116 min |
| May 24, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beckham, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Custer, Grady and 7 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 11:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Comanche, Cotton, Tillman | 60 min |
| May 25, 3:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brewster, Cochran, Jeff Davis, Loving, Presidio, Reeves and 3 more | 94 min |
| May 25, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Brewster, Castro, Cochran, Crane and 22 more | 7 hr |
| May 25, 3:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brewster, Cochran, Jeff Davis, Loving, Presidio, Reeves and 3 more | 85 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.