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Tornado Watch 227
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 23, 2019, 9:53 PM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas; 4 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 2019, 9:53 PM CDT (02:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2019, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Ellis County, OK, Harper County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:54 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
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 50%
Warnings issued inside it
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 10:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Comanche, Kiowa | 37 min |
| May 23, 10:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harper, Woods | 44 min |
| May 23, 10:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Comanche | 50 min |
| May 23, 10:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Harper, Woods | 17 min |
| May 23, 10:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DDC | Comanche | 45 min |
| May 23, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis, Harper, Woodward | 45 min |
| May 24, 1:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis, Harper, Woods, Woodward | 41 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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 259 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
- 1141 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -177 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1162 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 293 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 7:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barton, Clay, Cloud, Decatur, Ellis, Ellsworth and 31 more | 83 min |
| May 23, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Marshall, Nemaha, Republic, Washington | 4 hr |
| May 23, 8:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark | 88 min |
| May 23, 11:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Barton, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson and 21 more | 87 min |
| May 24, 1:37 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 33 more | 5 hr |
| May 24, 4:05 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Geary, Jackson and 11 more | 115 min |
| May 24, 4:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Doniphan | 4 hr |
| May 24, 6:43 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Doniphan | 2 hr |
| May 24, 1:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barber, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 25 more | 2 hr |
| May 24, 2:18 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey and 21 more | 8 hr |
| May 24, 6:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Crawford, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami and 1 more | 5 hr |
| May 23, 11:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Greer, Harmon, Roger Mills | 97 min |
| May 24, 2:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Ellis and 10 more | 4 hr |
| May 24, 3:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Harmon | 114 min |
| May 24, 4:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Creek and 10 more | 32 min |
| May 24, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin and 10 more | 5 hr |
| May 24, 6:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Comanche, Kiowa, Tillman | 56 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.