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Tornado Watch 140

May 6, 201928 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 6, 2019, 5:13 PM CDT for 28 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 6, 2019, 5:13 PM CDT (22:13 UTC)
Expired
May 6, 2019, 11:56 PM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
2 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 28 counties

Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Barton County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Morris County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS

The radar

The Wichita radar (KICT), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 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
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
20%
Ten or more severe hail reports
60%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
50%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 6, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPGeary, Morris, Riley, Wabaunsee47 min
May 6, 5:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDickinson, Geary, Morris29 min
May 6, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPGeary, Lyon, Morris, Riley, Wabaunsee40 min
May 6, 6:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDickinson, Morris63 min
May 6, 6:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTSaline62 min
May 6, 6:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPLyon, Osage, Wabaunsee41 min
May 6, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDouglas, Jefferson, Osage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee50 min
May 6, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPLyon, Morris, Wabaunsee32 min
May 6, 6:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMorris37 min
May 6, 6:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPAnderson, Coffey, Franklin, Lyon, Osage52 min
May 6, 7:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMcPherson, Marion, Saline56 min
May 6, 7:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPDouglas, Franklin, Osage29 min
May 6, 7:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton64 min
May 6, 7:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCoffey, Lyon45 min
May 6, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTRice43 min
May 6, 7:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPAnderson, Franklin, Osage44 min
May 6, 7:44 PM CDTTornado WarningICTMcPherson, Marion34 min
May 6, 7:45 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPLyon4 hr
May 6, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCoffey, Lyon, Osage45 min
May 6, 8:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTMcPherson, Marion58 min
May 6, 8:22 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPCoffey4 hr
May 6, 8:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTReno, Rice21 min
May 6, 8:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPAnderson, Coffey47 min
May 6, 8:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Chase, Greenwood42 min
May 6, 8:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCoffey, Lyon32 min
May 6, 8:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTAllen62 min
May 6, 9:04 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningTOPCoffey4 hr
May 6, 9:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTChase, Marion62 min
May 6, 9:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTAllen, Neosho, Wilson, Woodson44 min
May 6, 9:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTGreenwood, Wilson, Woodson57 min
May 6, 9:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Chase66 min
May 6, 9:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTAllen, Neosho, Wilson, Woodson62 min
May 6, 10:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTGreenwood, Wilson, Woodson29 min
May 6, 10:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Greenwood55 min
May 6, 10:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLabette, Neosho59 min
May 6, 10:48 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningICTNeosho, Wilson6 hr
May 6, 11:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLabette, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson60 min
May 6, 11:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTBarton, Ellsworth, Reno, Rice67 min
May 6, 11:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTButler, Chase, Greenwood32 min
May 6, 11:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTKingman, Reno67 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 (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 160 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2019-05-06Temperature 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, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2019-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 59 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1527 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
72 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 5, 7:17 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford and 15 more58 min
May 5, 9:18 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Doniphan and 14 more57 min
May 5, 9:19 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChautauqua, Elk, Montgomery, Wilson56 min
May 5, 9:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCChautauqua, Elk, Greenwood, Montgomery, Wilson6 hr
May 6, 1:16 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCloud, Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Republic and 2 more119 min
May 6, 3:47 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarton, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Finney, Hodgeman, Lane and 7 more88 min
May 6, 3:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtchison, Brown, Clay, Dickinson, Doniphan, Geary and 14 more5 hr
May 6, 5:08 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Coffey and 24 more97 min
May 6, 5:48 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton and 9 more87 min
May 6, 6:46 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 19 more6 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.