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Tornado Watch 146

May 10, 201028 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 10, 2010, 12:36 PM CDT for 28 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 10, 2010, 12:36 PM CDT (17:36 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 2010, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
2 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 28 counties

Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:36 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
70%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
40%
Ten or more severe wind reports
30%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
30%
Ten or more severe hail reports
80%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
60%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
90%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 10, 1:23 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDWichita52 min
May 10, 1:33 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDWichita42 min
May 10, 1:38 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDLogan67 min
May 10, 1:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Scott43 min
May 10, 2:01 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDLogan59 min
May 10, 2:08 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDWallace52 min
May 10, 2:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEdwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Kiowa46 min
May 10, 2:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCLane, Scott28 min
May 10, 2:33 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCEdwards, Ford, Hodgeman, Kiowa27 min
May 10, 2:42 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGove, Logan35 min
May 10, 2:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDThomas42 min
May 10, 3:05 PM CDTTornado WarningGLDGreeley, Wallace28 min
May 10, 3:11 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCNess34 min
May 10, 3:16 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCBarber, Comanche29 min
May 10, 3:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Trego40 min
May 10, 3:22 PM CDTTornado WarningDDCBarber, Pratt23 min
May 10, 3:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace67 min
May 10, 3:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber, Pratt26 min
May 10, 3:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Ness, Rush44 min
May 10, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley, Wichita60 min
May 10, 4:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCEllis, Rush33 min
May 10, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace60 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, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 108 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2010-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2010-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 531 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
575 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
531 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
603 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 10, 2:32 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCNorton, Phillips88 min
May 10, 10:37 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Gove and 19 more113 min
May 10, 12:46 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Harper, Sumner119 min
May 10, 1:25 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCButler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Harper and 5 more9 hr
May 10, 2:53 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Chautauqua, Cowley, Harper, Kingman, Pratt and 4 more97 min
May 10, 3:14 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Atchison, Barton, Brown, Chase, Clay and 35 more2 hr
May 10, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAnderson, Barton, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Coffey and 27 more6 hr
May 10, 4:42 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Coffey and 19 more63 min
May 10, 5:00 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCAllen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery and 3 more6 hr
May 10, 6:45 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette, Montgomery60 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.