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Tornado Watch 141

May 6, 201925 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 6, 2019, 6:46 PM CDT for 25 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 6, 2019, 6:46 PM CDT (23:46 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 2019, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 25 counties

Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Rush County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 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: 70%
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: 60%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Stafford	50 min
May 6, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton, Morton, Stanton	61 min
May 6, 7:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Stafford	18 min
May 6, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Hodgeman, Pawnee	54 min
May 6, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Stafford	45 min
May 6, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Morton, Stanton, Stevens	51 min
May 6, 8:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Stafford	4 hr
May 6, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Grant, Gray, Haskell, Kearny	49 min
May 6, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Stafford	47 min
May 6, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Hodgeman, Pawnee	45 min
May 6, 8:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Hodgeman, Pawnee	4 hr
May 6, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Haskell, Meade, Morton, Seward, Stevens	46 min
May 6, 9:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Morton	3 hr
May 6, 9:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Finney, Gray, Haskell	31 min
May 6, 9:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee	30 min
May 6, 9:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Pawnee	3 hr
May 6, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee	48 min
May 6, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Finney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman, Lane and 1 more	43 min
May 6, 9:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee	31 min
May 6, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton	45 min
May 6, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stevens	54 min
May 6, 9:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	DDC	Edwards	24 min
May 6, 10:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee, Stafford	51 min
May 6, 10:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Edwards	15 min
May 6, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Clark, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman and 2 more	47 min
May 6, 10:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Morton	104 min
May 6, 10:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee	2 hr
May 6, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Morton, Stevens	24 min
May 6, 10:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Hodgeman, Kiowa, Pawnee, Pratt, Stafford	57 min
May 6, 11:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pawnee, Rush, Stafford	49 min
May 6, 11:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Edwards, Pratt, Stafford	47 min
May 6, 11:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pratt, Stafford	16 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 64 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 377 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -274 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1026 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 230 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 224 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.2

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 7:17 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford and 15 more	58 min
May 5, 9:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Doniphan and 14 more	57 min
May 5, 9:19 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chautauqua, Elk, Montgomery, Wilson	56 min
May 5, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Chautauqua, Elk, Greenwood, Montgomery, Wilson	6 hr
May 6, 1:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cloud, Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Republic and 2 more	119 min
May 6, 3:47 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Finney, Hodgeman, Lane and 7 more	88 min
May 6, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Clay, Dickinson, Doniphan, Geary and 14 more	5 hr
May 6, 5:08 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Clay, Coffey and 24 more	97 min
May 6, 5:13 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Barton, Butler, Chase, Coffey and 22 more	7 hr
May 6, 5:48 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton and 9 more	87 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.