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Tornado Watch 207

May 23, 20105 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 23, 2010, 3:53 PM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 23, 2010, 3:53 PM MDT (21:53 UTC)
Expired
May 23, 2010, 11:00 PM MDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
3 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 41 counties

Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Finney County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Morton County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Trego County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Dundy County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Sherman County, TX

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 187 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:51 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
60%
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
90%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 4:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCFinney, Lane, Scott53 min
May 23, 5:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove, Logan53 min
May 23, 5:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca63 min
May 23, 5:24 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBaca66 min
May 23, 5:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas61 min
May 23, 5:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACimarron56 min
May 23, 5:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan, Thomas64 min
May 23, 5:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley, Wichita63 min
May 23, 6:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers60 min
May 23, 6:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur, Rawlins, Sheridan, Thomas62 min
May 23, 6:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDSherman, Wallace59 min
May 23, 6:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBProwers45 min
May 23, 6:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACimarron51 min
May 23, 6:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan, Sherman, Thomas64 min
May 23, 6:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca, Las Animas63 min
May 23, 6:33 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDLogan, Wallace, Wichita26 min
May 23, 6:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBent, Prowers63 min
May 23, 6:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur44 min
May 23, 6:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDWallace27 min
May 23, 6:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa26 min
May 23, 6:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Sherman65 min
May 23, 6:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa24 min
May 23, 6:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur, Rawlins34 min
May 23, 6:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan15 min
May 23, 7:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson19 min
May 23, 7:07 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDSherman, Thomas20 min
May 23, 7:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACimarron65 min
May 23, 7:13 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBaca, Bent, Prowers25 min
May 23, 7:23 PM MDTTornado WarningAMACimarron22 min
May 23, 7:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas11 min
May 23, 7:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne56 min
May 23, 7:41 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGLDSherman3 hr
May 23, 7:44 PM MDTTornado WarningAMACimarron31 min
May 23, 7:46 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDSherman44 min
May 23, 8:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBaca58 min
May 23, 8:04 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne, Sherman23 min
May 23, 8:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACimarron65 min
May 23, 8:17 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDKit Carson, Yuma58 min
May 23, 8:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACimarron58 min
May 23, 8:20 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne55 min
May 23, 8:22 PM MDTTornado WarningAMACimarron38 min
May 23, 8:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa23 min
May 23, 8:32 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGLDCheyenne6 hr
May 23, 8:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne14 min
May 23, 8:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACimarron31 min
May 23, 8:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDRawlins54 min
May 23, 8:51 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDWallace24 min
May 23, 8:54 PM MDTTornado WarningAMACimarron36 min
May 23, 8:56 PM MDTTornado WarningAMACimarron36 min
May 23, 8:59 PM MDTTornado WarningPUBBaca48 min
May 23, 9:07 PM MDTTornado WarningGLDCheyenne, Rawlins38 min
May 23, 9:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace51 min
May 23, 9:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACimarron60 min
May 23, 9:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Kit Carson12 min
May 23, 9:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADallam36 min
May 23, 9:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDLogan, Wichita32 min
May 23, 9:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDCheyenne, Decatur, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman, Thomas39 min
May 23, 10:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGove, Logan, Thomas, Wallace, Wichita33 min
May 23, 10:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur, Rawlins4 min
May 23, 10:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur, Rawlins39 min
May 23, 10:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDDecatur, Rawlins27 min
May 23, 11:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLDGreeley, Logan, Wichita34 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 206 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 2010-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 525 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2010-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 86 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
525 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-461 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1711 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 2:32 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Prowers88 min
May 22, 7:52 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCBoyd, Brown, Holt, Keya Paha, Rock4 hr
May 22, 10:09 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoyd, Holt96 min
May 23, 5:13 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCurry, Lea, Quay, Roosevelt92 min
May 22, 6:08 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrewster, Crane, Pecos, Reeves, Ward97 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.