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Tornado Watch 357

May 25, 200821 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 15 counties in Texas

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 1:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHartley, Oldham66 min
May 25, 2:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Scott62 min
May 25, 2:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHartley, Oldham63 min
May 25, 2:39 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCLane, Scott51 min
May 25, 2:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush39 min
May 25, 2:53 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAHartley37 min
May 25, 3:14 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCLane, Ness, Trego46 min
May 25, 3:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Ness, Rush, Trego47 min
May 25, 3:20 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCNess, Pawnee, Rush40 min
May 25, 3:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADallam, Hartley, Moore, Sherman66 min
May 25, 3:26 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAHartley27 min
May 25, 3:41 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAHartley, Moore49 min
May 25, 3:51 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCRush39 min
May 25, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCNess, Trego45 min
May 25, 4:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADallam, Hansford, Hartley, Hutchinson, Moore, Sherman60 min
May 25, 4:21 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEllis, Rush39 min
May 25, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Ness, Scott, Trego62 min
May 25, 4:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHartley55 min
May 25, 4:41 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCNess, Trego32 min
May 25, 4:41 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAHansford, Hutchinson, Moore49 min
May 25, 4:51 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEllis, Rush39 min
May 25, 4:53 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEllis, Ness, Rush, Trego37 min
May 25, 4:57 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEllis, Rush48 min
May 25, 5:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMATexas59 min
May 25, 5:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHansford, Hartley, Hutchinson, Moore, Sherman57 min
May 25, 5:25 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAHutchinson, Roberts65 min
May 25, 5:29 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEllis, Rush46 min
May 25, 5:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Ness, Rush, Trego40 min
May 25, 5:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADallam, Hartley, Moore, Sherman55 min
May 25, 5:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Ness, Scott, Trego49 min
May 25, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMABeaver60 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2008-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 359 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2008-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 61 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 9:34 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Harper, Labette, Montgomery and 2 more56 min
May 24, 11:33 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Butler, Cowley, Harper, Harvey, Kingman and 5 more4 hr
May 25, 3:05 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCButler, Harvey, Sedgwick, Sumner55 min
May 25, 11:55 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGrant, Haskell, Meade, Morton, Seward, Stevens65 min
May 25, 12:17 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCherokee, Crawford, Labette58 min
May 25, 1:13 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCherokee7 hr
May 25, 2:23 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 30 more67 min
May 25, 2:49 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery56 min
May 25, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Barton, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 30 more6 hr
May 25, 5:29 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant and 11 more61 min
May 25, 5:51 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 21 more7 hr
May 25, 6:06 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCherokee114 min
May 24, 8:04 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCJackson116 min
May 24, 8:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBeckham, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Custer, Grady and 7 more6 hr
May 24, 11:00 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCComanche, Cotton, Tillman60 min
May 25, 3:11 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrewster, Cochran, Jeff Davis, Loving, Presidio, Reeves and 3 more94 min
May 25, 3:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAndrews, Bailey, Brewster, Castro, Cochran, Crane and 22 more7 hr
May 25, 3:50 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrewster, Cochran, Jeff Davis, Loving, Presidio, Reeves and 3 more85 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.