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Tornado Watch 214
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 22, 2019, 9:44 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 2019, 9:44 PM CDT (02:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2019, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 48 counties
Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Labette County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Dent County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Maries County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Miller County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Mayes County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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
- 40%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
47 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 9:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington | 44 min |
| May 22, 9:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Cedar, Dade, Hickory, Polk, St. Clair | 8 hr |
| May 22, 10:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Polk | 29 min |
| May 22, 10:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Cedar, Dade, Polk | 35 min |
| May 22, 10:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | McDonald, Newton | 8 hr |
| May 22, 10:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Craig, Nowata, Rogers | 32 min |
| May 22, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | McDonald, Newton | 12 min |
| May 22, 10:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Cedar, Dallas, Hickory, Polk | 45 min |
| May 22, 10:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Osage, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington | 45 min |
| May 22, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Miller, Morgan | 52 min |
| May 22, 10:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Miller, Morgan | 30 min |
| May 22, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Mayes, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington | 49 min |
| May 22, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden, Dallas, Laclede | 18 min |
| May 22, 11:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Miller | 16 min |
| May 22, 11:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Benton, Cedar, Hickory, Polk, St. Clair | 65 min |
| May 22, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Mayes, Rogers | 64 min |
| May 22, 11:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa | 3 hr |
| May 22, 11:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Craig, Mayes, Rogers | 38 min |
| May 23, 12:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Nowata, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington | 48 min |
| May 23, 12:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Camden, Dallas, Hickory, Laclede | 40 min |
| May 23, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Ottawa | 46 min |
| May 23, 12:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Ottawa | 45 min |
| May 23, 12:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas, Hickory, Laclede, Polk | 42 min |
| May 23, 12:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Camden, Laclede | 23 min |
| May 23, 12:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Nowata, Rogers | 52 min |
| May 23, 12:57 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Delaware, Ottawa | 45 min |
| May 23, 1:11 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Camden, Laclede, Pulaski | 49 min |
| May 23, 1:13 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Camden, Miller, Pulaski | 32 min |
| May 23, 1:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | McDonald, Newton | 56 min |
| May 23, 1:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Delaware, Ottawa | 38 min |
| May 23, 1:29 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | McDonald, Newton | 46 min |
| May 23, 1:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Maries, Miller, Phelps, Pulaski | 37 min |
| May 23, 1:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Delaware, Ottawa | 42 min |
| May 23, 1:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Pulaski | 34 min |
| May 23, 2:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Jasper, Newton | 9 hr |
| May 23, 2:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | McDonald, Newton | 62 min |
| May 23, 2:22 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Dent, Phelps, Pulaski | 38 min |
| May 23, 2:51 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SGF | Dent, Phelps | 24 min |
| May 23, 2:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Dallas, Greene, Polk | 53 min |
| May 23, 2:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette | 32 min |
| May 23, 3:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 42 min |
| May 23, 3:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Webster | 22 min |
| May 23, 3:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Labette | 5 hr |
| May 23, 3:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Cherokee | 8 hr |
| May 23, 4:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGF | Jasper, Newton | 52 min |
| May 23, 5:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Christian, Greene, Lawrence | 4 hr |
| May 23, 5:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Dade, Greene, Lawrence | 6 hr |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 2061 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1242 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 269 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.4
- Supercell composite
- 17.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 12:59 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton | 91 min |
| May 22, 7:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette | 88 min |
| May 23, 7:35 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Greeley and 13 more | 85 min |
| May 23, 11:26 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford and 16 more | 94 min |
| May 23, 1:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Harper and 8 more | 63 min |
| May 23, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barton, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford and 30 more | 8 hr |
| May 23, 3:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Kiowa, Meade, Pratt and 1 more | 7 hr |
| May 23, 5:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Harper and 4 more | 87 min |
| May 23, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butler, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth and 16 more | 6 hr |
| May 22, 8:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Chariton, Clark and 16 more | 63 min |
| May 22, 9:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Cedar, Dade, Dallas, Hickory, Jasper and 2 more | 56 min |
| May 22, 9:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audrain, Clark, Lewis, Lincoln, Marion, Monroe and 8 more | 92 min |
| May 22, 10:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Callaway, Cole, Crawford, Franklin, Gasconade, Iron and 14 more | 8 hr |
| May 23, 1:23 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Franklin, Gasconade, Jefferson, Lincoln, Saint Charles, Saint Louis and 2 more | 97 min |
| May 23, 2:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Iron, Madison and 9 more | 96 min |
| May 22, 7:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Grady, McClain, Stephens and 1 more | 94 min |
| May 23, 1:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Ellis, Roger Mills | 118 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.