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Tornado Watch 146
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 7, 2019, 3:31 PM CDT for 23 counties in Kansas; 7 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 2019, 3:31 PM CDT (20:31 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2019, 9:19 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 30 counties
Barber County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Elk County, KS, Ford County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Meade County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Grant County, OK, Harper County, OK, Kay County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 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
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 70%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 50%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
22 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sedgwick, Sumner | 62 min |
| May 7, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 55 min |
| May 7, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley, Sedgwick | 66 min |
| May 7, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley, Sumner | 55 min |
| May 7, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler | 54 min |
| May 7, 5:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler | 3 hr |
| May 7, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 66 min |
| May 7, 5:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DDC | Clark | 4 hr |
| May 7, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood | 56 min |
| May 7, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Woods | 49 min |
| May 7, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis, Roger Mills | 46 min |
| May 7, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Elk, Greenwood | 55 min |
| May 7, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Dewey, Major, Woods, Woodward | 26 min |
| May 7, 7:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Harper, Woods | 3 hr |
| May 7, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Dewey, Ellis, Woodward | 47 min |
| May 7, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 45 min |
| May 7, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Woods | 42 min |
| May 7, 8:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Woods | 3 hr |
| May 7, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Barber | 27 min |
| May 7, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Cowley | 35 min |
| May 7, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Dewey, Ellis, Roger Mills, Woodward | 45 min |
| May 7, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Grant | 45 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -327 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 465 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 416 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 7:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 27 more | 94 min |
| May 6, 7:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Edwards, Pawnee, Stafford | 34 min |
| May 6, 8:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 9 more | 55 min |
| May 6, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 6 hr |
| May 6, 10:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chautauqua, Cherokee, Crawford, Elk, Labette, Montgomery and 2 more | 57 min |
| May 6, 10:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chautauqua, Comanche, Cowley, Elk and 10 more | 62 min |
| May 6, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Ellsworth and 12 more | 4 hr |
| May 7, 11:04 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Meade, Seward, Stevens | 116 min |
| May 7, 2:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 17 more | 2 hr |
| May 7, 6:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Butler, Chautauqua, Clark, Comanche, Cowley and 8 more | 89 min |
| May 6, 11:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Craig, Delaware, Mayes | 55 min |
| May 7, 1:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Texas | 9 hr |
| May 7, 3:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver | 94 min |
| May 7, 4:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cimarron | 5 hr |
| May 7, 5:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Greer, Kiowa and 3 more | 66 min |
| May 7, 5:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Texas | 54 min |
| May 7, 5:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Custer, Dewey and 11 more | 4 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.