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Tornado Watch 374

May 26, 200835 counties in Kansas; 20 counties in Oklahoma; 15 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 26, 2008, 1:46 PM CDT for 35 counties in Kansas; 20 counties in Oklahoma; 15 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2008, 1:46 PM CDT (18:46 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2008, 7:53 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 3 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 70 counties

Barber County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Grant County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Major County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Texas County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:45 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: 50%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 80%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 2:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Wheeler	62 min
May 26, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley, Sumner	38 min
May 26, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis, Woodward	45 min
May 26, 3:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hemphill, Roberts, Wheeler	64 min
May 26, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hodgeman, Ness	42 min
May 26, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley, Sumner	57 min
May 26, 4:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Hodgeman, Ness, Pawnee	42 min
May 26, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Briscoe, Hall	36 min
May 26, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Ellis, Woodward	48 min
May 26, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grant	52 min
May 26, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln	57 min
May 26, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	51 min
May 26, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley	55 min
May 26, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Wheeler	55 min
May 26, 4:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Wheeler	23 min
May 26, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	52 min
May 26, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	64 min
May 26, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Hodgeman, Pawnee, Rush	47 min
May 26, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Wheeler	59 min
May 26, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Woodward	20 min
May 26, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Ford, Kiowa	40 min
May 26, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper, Woods, Woodward	38 min
May 26, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Roger Mills	61 min
May 26, 5:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Wheeler	45 min
May 26, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Barton	49 min
May 26, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler	42 min
May 26, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	54 min
May 26, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee	38 min
May 26, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grant, Kay	38 min
May 26, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Gray, Hemphill, Roberts, Wheeler	66 min
May 26, 5:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Kiowa	28 min
May 26, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth	64 min
May 26, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	57 min
May 26, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper, Woods	46 min
May 26, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Wheeler	61 min
May 26, 5:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Sumner	4 hr
May 26, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth, Donley	57 min
May 26, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Meade	41 min
May 26, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford	55 min
May 26, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Lincoln, Russell	55 min
May 26, 5:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Kiowa, Pratt	38 min
May 26, 5:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee, Stafford	51 min
May 26, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sumner	42 min
May 26, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grant, Kay	45 min
May 26, 5:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Collingsworth, Donley	56 min
May 26, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	36 min
May 26, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Roger Mills	63 min
May 26, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber, Clark, Comanche, Kiowa	62 min
May 26, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Ellsworth, Lincoln, Saline	61 min
May 26, 5:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Kay	31 min
May 26, 6:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Stafford	31 min
May 26, 6:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Kiowa, Pratt	36 min
May 26, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Gray, Meade	50 min
May 26, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harper, Woods	20 min
May 26, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Ford, Meade	47 min
May 26, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth, Wheeler	30 min
May 26, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grant, Kay	46 min
May 26, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Gray, Meade	44 min
May 26, 6:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Collingsworth	28 min
May 26, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Greer, Harmon	42 min
May 26, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Hodgeman, Pawnee	52 min
May 26, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, Reno	29 min
May 26, 6:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Kay	36 min
May 26, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt, Stafford	48 min
May 26, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Edwards, Ford, Kiowa	48 min
May 26, 6:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Greer, Harmon	27 min
May 26, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Gray, Wheeler	67 min
May 26, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Lipscomb	63 min
May 26, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Gray, Hodgeman	38 min
May 26, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth	61 min
May 26, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Roger Mills, Washita	60 min
May 26, 7:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Kay	3 hr
May 26, 7:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Pratt	38 min
May 26, 7:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Kay	33 min
May 26, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, Reno, Sedgwick	45 min
May 26, 7:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	Cowley	4 hr
May 26, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Greer, Harmon	43 min
May 26, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Gray, Hodgeman	40 min
May 26, 7:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Kingman, Reno	32 min
May 26, 7:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hemphill	28 min
May 26, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick, Sumner	56 min
May 26, 7:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Collingsworth	25 min
May 26, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Hodgeman, Pawnee	28 min
May 26, 7:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Greer, Harmon	51 min
May 26, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	33 min
May 26, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kay, Noble	47 min
May 26, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Ford, Gray, Hodgeman	39 min
May 26, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Wheeler	53 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 89 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 510 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -425 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1389 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 349 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 348 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.

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, 8:46 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 32 more	3 hr
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, 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, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Creek and 19 more	6 hr
May 25, 8:54 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Brewster, Castro, Crane, Crockett, Culberson and 19 more	2 hr
May 26, 1:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Borden, Coke, Cottle, Crane, Crosby, Dawson and 22 more	95 min
May 26, 2:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Brewster, Coke, Cottle, Crane and 32 more	7 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.