Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Watches in 2008
Tornado Watch 395
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 30, 2008, 2:42 PM CDT for 21 counties in Kansas; 42 counties in Missouri; 5 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 30, 2008, 2:42 PM CDT (19:42 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2008, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 68 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Labette County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Adair County, MO, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Camden County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Daviess County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Miller County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Polk County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Craig County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 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
- 60%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 40%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Ray | 44 min |
| May 30, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Randolph | 36 min |
| May 30, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair, Linn, Macon, Sullivan | 34 min |
| May 30, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Chariton | 33 min |
| May 30, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton, Randolph | 36 min |
| May 30, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair, Macon | 18 min |
| May 30, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton, Randolph | 35 min |
| May 30, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Chariton, Howard, Randolph | 34 min |
| May 30, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Morgan | 57 min |
| May 30, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Camden, Miller, Morgan | 56 min |
| May 30, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Camden, Miller, Morgan | 62 min |
| May 30, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery | 55 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 728 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -282 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 858 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 521 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 626 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Doniphan | 8 hr |
| May 29, 9:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell and 12 more | 56 min |
| May 29, 9:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cloud, Decatur, Ellis, Ellsworth, Gove, Graham and 14 more | 37 min |
| May 29, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ellis, Finney, Gove, Graham, Grant, Greeley and 12 more | 5 hr |
| May 29, 10:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cloud, Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Republic and 2 more | 4 hr |
| May 29, 11:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Clay, Doniphan, Jackson, Marshall and 4 more | 56 min |
| May 30, 1:37 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Clay, Cloud, Jackson, Marshall, Mitchell and 5 more | 53 min |
| May 30, 2:17 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Doniphan | 88 min |
| May 30, 2:25 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Grant, Gray, Haskell, Hodgeman, Kearny and 4 more | 65 min |
| May 30, 2:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Coffey and 16 more | 97 min |
| May 29, 7:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Gentry, Harrison, Holt, Mercer, Nodaway and 2 more | 53 min |
| May 30, 1:19 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Scotland | 8 hr |
| May 30, 6:00 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Putnam, Schuyler, Scotland | 2 hr |
| May 30, 7:56 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Knox, Lewis, Marion, Scotland, Shelby | 6 hr |
| May 30, 1:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lincoln, Pike, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, City of Saint Louis | 2 hr |
| May 30, 1:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Franklin, Gasconade and 16 more | 8 hr |
| May 30, 4:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Scotland | 61 min |
| May 30, 5:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Carroll, Chariton, Cole and 24 more | 87 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.