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Tornado Watch 358

May 25, 20084 states

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 1:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair, Cherokee, Sequoyah57 min
May 25, 2:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAAdair, Cherokee22 min
May 25, 2:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACrawford, Franklin, Madison, Washington66 min
May 25, 2:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSABenton, Washington57 min
May 25, 3:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSABenton, Carroll, Madison, Washington66 min
May 25, 3:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFBarry65 min
May 25, 3:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSABenton41 min
May 25, 3:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSAWashington38 min
May 25, 3:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJohnson, Newton40 min
May 25, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACarroll, Madison60 min
May 25, 4:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFStone7 min
May 25, 4:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACrawford, Madison, Washington46 min
May 25, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACarroll29 min
May 25, 4:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKBoone33 min
May 25, 4:54 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSAMadison5 hr
May 25, 4:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKNewton48 min
May 25, 5:05 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSAFranklin5 hr
May 25, 5:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFChristian, Douglas, Taney29 min
May 25, 5:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFCamden, Miller78 min
May 25, 5:32 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZKJohnson, Newton3 hr
May 25, 5:33 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTSAWashington5 hr
May 25, 5:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJohnson, Newton26 min
May 25, 5:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFWright60 min
May 25, 5:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKNewton43 min
May 25, 5:50 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKJohnson, Newton, Pope40 min
May 25, 6:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJohnson44 min
May 25, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFDouglas, Howell, Ozark, Texas, Wright65 min
May 25, 6:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFPolk32 min
May 25, 6:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKNewton, Pope, Searcy, Van Buren41 min
May 25, 6:24 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSGFCamden, Miller6 hr
May 25, 6:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSACrawford, Madison, Washington64 min
May 25, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKJohnson, Pope45 min
May 25, 6:49 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSGFPulaski6 hr
May 25, 7:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKSearcy, Stone, Van Buren43 min
May 25, 7:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFCamden, Maries, Miller, Pulaski68 min
May 25, 7:10 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSGFMaries6 hr
May 25, 7:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFDent, Howell, Oregon, Ozark, Shannon, Texas68 min
May 25, 7:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGFPhelps48 min
May 25, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZKPope, Van Buren62 min
May 25, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WarningSGFMaries, Phelps22 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2008-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2790 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, Springfield, MO at 12:00Z on 2008-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 69 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 12:17 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBenton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 5 more58 min
May 25, 2:49 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBenton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 4 more56 min
May 25, 6:06 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway and 17 more114 min
May 25, 6:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBaxter, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Cross and 15 more7 hr
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, 12:39 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClark, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray and 15 more5 hr
May 25, 2:23 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 30 more67 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, 12:53 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAudrain, Boone, Callaway, Chariton, Cole, Cooper and 29 more67 min
May 25, 3:30 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCClark, Scotland5 hr
May 25, 3:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdair, Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Cooper and 25 more6 hr
May 25, 6:39 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAudrain, Clark, Franklin, Jefferson, Knox, Lewis and 12 more66 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

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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.