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Tornado Watch 213
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 22, 2019, 4:00 PM CDT for 24 counties in Illinois; 5 counties in Iowa; 15 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 2019, 4:00 PM CDT (21:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2019, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 44 counties
Des Moines County, IA, Henry County, IA, Lee County, IA, Louisa County, IA, Van Buren County, IA, Adams County, IL, Brown County, IL, Bureau County, IL, Cass County, IL, Fulton County, IL, Hancock County, IL, Henderson County, IL, Henry County, IL, Knox County, IL, Marshall County, IL, Mason County, IL, McDonough County, IL, Menard County, IL, Mercer County, IL, Morgan County, IL, Peoria County, IL, Pike County, IL, Putnam County, IL, Schuyler County, IL, Scott County, IL, Stark County, IL, Tazewell County, IL, Warren County, IL, Woodford County, IL, Audrain County, MO, Boone County, MO, Callaway County, MO, Clark County, MO, Cole County, MO, Knox County, MO, Lewis County, MO, Marion County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Montgomery County, MO, Pike County, MO, Ralls County, MO, Scotland County, MO, Shelby County, MO
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:59 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
- 60%
- 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
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
43 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Marion, Monroe, Shelby | 47 min |
| May 22, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Marion, Shelby | 30 min |
| May 22, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Knox, Lewis, Marion, Shelby | 45 min |
| May 22, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Hancock | 44 min |
| May 22, 7:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Lee | 3 hr |
| May 22, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | Hancock | 51 min |
| May 22, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams | 36 min |
| May 22, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Adams | 16 min |
| May 22, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams | 52 min |
| May 22, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Adams | 30 min |
| May 22, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Hancock, Henderson, McDonough, Warren | 44 min |
| May 22, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain, Monroe | 73 min |
| May 22, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Hancock | 26 min |
| May 22, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Schuyler | 40 min |
| May 22, 8:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Adams, Brown | 52 min |
| May 22, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain, Boone | 50 min |
| May 22, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Hancock, McDonough | 34 min |
| May 22, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Lewis | 29 min |
| May 22, 9:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Boone | 50 min |
| May 22, 9:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Schuyler | 17 min |
| May 22, 9:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DVN | McDonough | 44 min |
| May 22, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Boone, Cole, Moniteau | 57 min |
| May 22, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike, Ralls | 48 min |
| May 22, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton | 49 min |
| May 22, 9:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Schuyler | 32 min |
| May 22, 9:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Fulton, Knox | 27 min |
| May 22, 9:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Audrain, Callaway, Montgomery | 53 min |
| May 22, 9:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Fulton, Schuyler | 34 min |
| May 22, 9:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Fulton, Peoria | 32 min |
| May 22, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Hancock | 46 min |
| May 22, 10:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Fulton | 26 min |
| May 22, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain, Monroe, Pike, Ralls | 63 min |
| May 22, 10:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LSX | Monroe, Ralls | 6 hr |
| May 22, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain, Callaway, Montgomery, Pike | 43 min |
| May 22, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Peoria, Tazewell, Woodford | 24 min |
| May 22, 10:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LSX | Pike | 27 min |
| May 22, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton, Logan, Mason, Tazewell | 47 min |
| May 22, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Fulton, Mason, Peoria, Tazewell | 42 min |
| May 22, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Adams, Brown, Pike | 52 min |
| May 22, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Pike | 43 min |
| May 22, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Morgan, Scott | 41 min |
| May 22, 10:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Cole, Moniteau | 54 min |
| May 22, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Audrain, Callaway, Lincoln, Montgomery, Pike, Warren | 50 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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 1378 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 94 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 315 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 375 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 21, 7:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Calhoun, Christian, Clark, Clay and 39 more | 83 min |
| May 21, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Clay, Coles, Cumberland, Effingham, Franklin and 11 more | 3 hr |
| May 21, 11:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Cumberland, Edwards, Gallatin, Hamilton and 11 more | 94 min |
| May 22, 5:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass, Fulton and 20 more | 2 hr |
| May 21, 8:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page | 59 min |
| May 22, 3:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barry, Barton, Bates, Benton, Camden, Cass and 16 more | 114 min |
| May 22, 3:32 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barton, Bates, Benton, Camden, Carroll, Cass and 22 more | 7 hr |
| May 22, 5:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | McDonald, Newton | 85 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.