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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 261
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 26, 2019, 11:23 PM CDT for 36 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2019, 11:23 PM CDT (04:23 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2019, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 41 counties
Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Reno County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Kay County, OK, Major County, OK
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:23 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
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 70%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 50%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
23 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Barton, Ellsworth, Lincoln, McPherson, Reno, Rice and 1 more | 80 min |
| May 26, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman, Sedgwick, Sumner | 69 min |
| May 27, 12:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Ellis, Harper, Major, Woods, Woodward | 47 min |
| May 27, 12:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln, McPherson, Saline | 67 min |
| May 27, 12:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Harvey, Kingman, Reno, Sedgwick, Sumner | 81 min |
| May 27, 12:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Ottawa | 64 min |
| May 27, 12:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Grant, Woods, Woodward | 49 min |
| May 27, 12:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, Lincoln, McPherson, Rice, Russell | 32 min |
| May 27, 1:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ottawa | 53 min |
| May 27, 1:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Mitchell | 47 min |
| May 27, 1:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Clay, Dickinson, Geary, Morris, Republic, Riley and 1 more | 56 min |
| May 27, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | McPherson, Marion | 55 min |
| May 27, 1:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Major, Woods | 48 min |
| May 27, 1:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 4 more | 77 min |
| May 27, 1:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Geary, Morris, Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee | 61 min |
| May 27, 2:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Washington | 57 min |
| May 27, 2:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon, Pottawatomie, Wabaunsee, Washington | 61 min |
| May 27, 2:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Marshall, Nemaha | 58 min |
| May 27, 2:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk, Greenwood, Wilson, Woodson | 69 min |
| May 27, 2:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Harper, Sumner | 4 hr |
| May 27, 3:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley, Sedgwick | 4 hr |
| May 27, 4:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Major, Woods, Woodward | 45 min |
| May 27, 4:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant | 38 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 8:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Finney, Gove, Graham, Grant and 19 more | 55 min |
| May 26, 8:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Geary and 18 more | 2 hr |
| May 26, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis, Finney and 16 more | 5 hr |
| May 26, 10:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Edwards, Ford, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pratt and 1 more | 57 min |
| May 27, 1:54 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 37 more | 111 min |
| May 27, 2:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Cherokee and 20 more | 4 hr |
| May 26, 7:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Ellis, Harper, Roger Mills, Woods, Woodward | 8 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.