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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 281
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 27, 2017, 4:27 PM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 2017, 4:27 PM MDT (22:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2017, 10:19 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 27 counties
Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Grant County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Union County, NM, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 193 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:29 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
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
25 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 4:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 48 min |
| May 27, 4:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 32 min |
| May 27, 4:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 39 min |
| May 27, 5:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 45 min |
| May 27, 5:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 30 min |
| May 27, 5:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Las Animas | 52 min |
| May 27, 5:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 29 min |
| May 27, 5:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 26 min |
| May 27, 5:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 46 min |
| May 27, 6:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 66 min |
| May 27, 6:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 29 min |
| May 27, 6:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 29 min |
| May 27, 6:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 54 min |
| May 27, 6:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 46 min |
| May 27, 6:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam, Sherman | 47 min |
| May 27, 7:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stevens | 52 min |
| May 27, 7:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 43 min |
| May 27, 7:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford, Hutchinson, Moore, Sherman | 59 min |
| May 27, 7:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam, Hartley, Sherman | 48 min |
| May 27, 7:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Meade, Seward, Stevens | 54 min |
| May 27, 7:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver, Texas | 54 min |
| May 27, 8:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford, Hutchinson, Ochiltree, Roberts | 59 min |
| May 27, 8:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam, Hansford, Hutchinson, Moore, Sherman | 54 min |
| May 27, 8:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 53 min |
| May 27, 9:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill | 20 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 236 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4238 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:15 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Crowley, Elbert, Kiowa and 8 more | 60 min |
| May 26, 9:03 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Phillips, Yuma | 117 min |
| May 27, 1:45 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Las Animas, Otero and 1 more | 2 hr |
| May 26, 6:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Graham, Greeley and 12 more | 7 hr |
| May 26, 10:45 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Logan and 12 more | 2 hr |
| May 26, 11:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Ellis, Ellsworth, Jewell, Lincoln, Mitchell and 8 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 12:47 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Lane and 10 more | 88 min |
| May 27, 2:35 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth and 21 more | 115 min |
| May 27, 8:59 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 20 more | 2 hr |
| May 27, 11:13 AM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Johnson, Linn, Miami | 7 hr |
| May 27, 12:12 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Linn, Miami, Neosho | 93 min |
| May 27, 1:46 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Coffey, Greenwood, Neosho and 1 more | 59 min |
| May 26, 9:36 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Haskell, Latimer, McIntosh and 5 more | 54 min |
| May 26, 11:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Delaware, Mayes | 5 hr |
| May 27, 1:04 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Garfield and 22 more | 86 min |
| May 27, 3:01 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 40 more | 10 hr |
| May 27, 3:51 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Craig, Creek, Garvin and 25 more | 24 min |
| May 27, 5:00 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Clay, Eastland, Jack, Montague, Palo Pinto and 4 more | 90 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.