Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Watches in 2008
Tornado Watch 358
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 25, 2008, 1:13 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 2008, 1:13 PM CDT (18:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2008, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 58 counties
Benton County, AR, Boone County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Johnson County, AR, Logan County, AR, Madison County, AR, Marion County, AR, Newton County, AR, Pope County, AR, Scott County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Washington County, AR, Yell County, AR, Cherokee County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Maries County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Miller County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK
The radar
The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:17 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
- 30%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- 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
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
40 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 1:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Sequoyah | 57 min |
| May 25, 2:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee | 22 min |
| May 25, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Washington | 66 min |
| May 25, 2:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, Washington | 57 min |
| May 25, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington | 66 min |
| May 25, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Barry | 65 min |
| May 25, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 41 min |
| May 25, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 38 min |
| May 25, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Newton | 40 min |
| May 25, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Carroll, Madison | 60 min |
| May 25, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Stone | 7 min |
| May 25, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Madison, Washington | 46 min |
| May 25, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Carroll | 29 min |
| May 25, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Boone | 33 min |
| May 25, 4:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Madison | 5 hr |
| May 25, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton | 48 min |
| May 25, 5:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Franklin | 5 hr |
| May 25, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Christian, Douglas, Taney | 29 min |
| May 25, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden, Miller | 78 min |
| May 25, 5:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Johnson, Newton | 3 hr |
| May 25, 5:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Washington | 5 hr |
| May 25, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Newton | 26 min |
| May 25, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Wright | 60 min |
| May 25, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton | 43 min |
| May 25, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Johnson, Newton, Pope | 40 min |
| May 25, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson | 44 min |
| May 25, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Douglas, Howell, Ozark, Texas, Wright | 65 min |
| May 25, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Polk | 32 min |
| May 25, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton, Pope, Searcy, Van Buren | 41 min |
| May 25, 6:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Camden, Miller | 6 hr |
| May 25, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Madison, Washington | 64 min |
| May 25, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Pope | 45 min |
| May 25, 6:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Pulaski | 6 hr |
| May 25, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Searcy, Stone, Van Buren | 43 min |
| May 25, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden, Maries, Miller, Pulaski | 68 min |
| May 25, 7:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Maries | 6 hr |
| May 25, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dent, Howell, Oregon, Ozark, Shannon, Texas | 68 min |
| May 25, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Phelps | 48 min |
| May 25, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pope, Van Buren | 62 min |
| May 25, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Maries, Phelps | 22 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 2790 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 480 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 12:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 5 more | 58 min |
| May 25, 2:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 4 more | 56 min |
| May 25, 6:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway and 17 more | 114 min |
| May 25, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baxter, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Cross and 15 more | 7 hr |
| 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, 12:39 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray and 15 more | 5 hr |
| May 25, 2:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 30 more | 67 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, 12:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Chariton, Cole, Cooper and 29 more | 67 min |
| May 25, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Scotland | 5 hr |
| May 25, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Cooper and 25 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 6:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audrain, Clark, Franklin, Jefferson, Knox, Lewis and 12 more | 66 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 |
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.