Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches in 2008
Tornado Watch 369
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 25, 2008, 8:46 PM CDT for 38 counties in Kansas; 37 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 2008, 8:46 PM CDT (01:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2008, 11:23 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 75 counties
Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Miami County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osage County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Adair County, MO, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Bates County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Henry County, MO, Holt County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Worth County, MO
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:46 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
- 70%
- 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
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 8:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Harvey, Marion | 36 min |
| May 25, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman | 85 min |
| May 25, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Worth | 38 min |
| May 25, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Harrison | 38 min |
| May 25, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase, Marion | 55 min |
| May 25, 9:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Reno | 31 min |
| May 25, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Harrison, Mercer | 44 min |
| May 25, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, McPherson, Marion | 55 min |
| May 25, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Putnam | 37 min |
| May 25, 10:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Daviess, Grundy, Harrison | 36 min |
| May 25, 10:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Grundy, Mercer | 26 min |
| May 25, 10:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Sedgwick | 39 min |
| May 25, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase, Marion | 55 min |
| May 25, 11:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 39 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 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 15 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
- 1985 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1499 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 8:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Barber, Barton, Brown, Butler, Chase and 31 more | 113 min |
| May 25, 9:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Pratt | 2 hr |
| May 25, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 15 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 12:10 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 10 more | 95 min |
| May 26, 2:42 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Crawford, Labette | 93 min |
| May 26, 1:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford and 14 more | 59 min |
| May 26, 1:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clark and 29 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 3:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellsworth and 19 more | 96 min |
| May 26, 6:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clark and 26 more | 2 hr |
| May 25, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Scotland | 6 hr |
| May 25, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln, Montgomery, Pike, Saint Charles and 6 more | 4 hr |
| May 25, 10:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid and 4 more | 117 min |
| May 25, 11:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Scotland | 62 min |
| May 26, 12:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Pemiscot | 65 min |
| May 26, 5:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 3 hr |
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.