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Tornado Watch 361

May 25, 200836 counties in Kansas; 10 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 25, 2008, 3:00 PM CDT for 36 counties in Kansas; 10 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 25, 2008, 3:00 PM CDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 2008, 8:49 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
3.5 in
Strongest gust expected
70 kt
All 46 counties

Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Brown County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Smith County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Saline County, NE, Thayer County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
60%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
30%
Ten or more severe wind reports
60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
40%
Ten or more severe hail reports
70%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
40%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
90%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 3:14 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCLane, Ness, Trego46 min
May 25, 3:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Ness, Rush, Trego47 min
May 25, 3:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTRussell18 min
May 25, 3:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTRussell55 min
May 25, 3:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis18 min
May 25, 3:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne46 min
May 25, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCNess, Trego45 min
May 25, 4:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDMitchell, Osborne38 min
May 25, 4:10 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEllis, Trego50 min
May 25, 4:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLincoln50 min
May 25, 4:21 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEllis, Rush39 min
May 25, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Ness, Scott, Trego62 min
May 25, 4:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTRussell5 hr
May 25, 4:36 PM CDTTornado WarningICTLincoln24 min
May 25, 4:37 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEllis, Trego53 min
May 25, 4:37 PM CDTTornado WarningICTRussell23 min
May 25, 4:41 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCNess, Trego32 min
May 25, 4:43 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDMitchell47 min
May 25, 4:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne29 min
May 25, 4:51 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEllis, Rush39 min
May 25, 4:53 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEllis, Ness, Rush, Trego37 min
May 25, 4:56 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGIDOsborne5 hr
May 25, 4:57 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEllis, Rush48 min
May 25, 4:59 PM CDTTornado WarningICTLincoln27 min
May 25, 5:05 PM CDTTornado WarningICTBarton, Russell55 min
May 25, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDJewell50 min
May 25, 5:11 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTLincoln4 hr
May 25, 5:23 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGIDMitchell4 hr
May 25, 5:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDNuckolls37 min
May 25, 5:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCloud, Ottawa50 min
May 25, 5:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLincoln59 min
May 25, 5:28 PM CDTTornado WarningICTRussell32 min
May 25, 5:29 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEllis, Rush46 min
May 25, 5:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Ness, Rush, Trego40 min
May 25, 5:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Ness, Scott, Trego49 min
May 25, 5:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer43 min
May 25, 5:54 PM CDTTornado WarningICTBarton, Russell66 min
May 25, 6:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOttawa41 min
May 25, 6:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush70 min
May 25, 6:07 PM CDTTornado WarningICTBarton, Russell38 min
May 25, 6:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCloud, Republic, Washington35 min
May 25, 6:08 PM CDTTornado WarningICTEllsworth, Lincoln52 min
May 25, 6:12 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTBarton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, Russell4 hr
May 25, 6:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXSaline, Seward28 min
May 25, 6:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFillmore, Thayer27 min
May 25, 6:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXGage, Jefferson37 min
May 25, 6:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton, Russell57 min
May 25, 6:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee, Rush69 min
May 25, 6:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXGage, Jefferson, Lancaster, Saline, Seward34 min
May 25, 6:47 PM CDTTornado WarningICTBarton, Ellsworth, Russell43 min
May 25, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WarningICTSaline30 min
May 25, 7:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton, Russell43 min
May 25, 7:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay, Riley39 min
May 25, 7:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXCass, Gage, Johnson, Lancaster, Nemaha, Otoe and 2 more36 min
May 25, 7:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton91 min
May 25, 7:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay, Dickinson, Geary, Ottawa41 min
May 25, 7:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTEllsworth, Rice51 min
May 25, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTRice45 min
May 25, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXNemaha30 min
May 25, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMcPherson, Saline65 min
May 25, 7:52 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTBarton, Ellsworth, McPherson, Reno, Rice, Saline3 hr
May 25, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXOtoe34 min
May 25, 8:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTEllsworth, Rice59 min
May 25, 8:40 PM CDTTornado WarningICTHarvey, McPherson19 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 209 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2008-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2142 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2008-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 114 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
2142 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-137 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
841 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
114 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
2.1

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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, 12:39 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClark, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray and 15 more5 hr
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, 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, 9:01 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBurt, Cedar, Cuming, Dakota, Dixon, Thurston and 2 more59 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.