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Tornado Watch 233
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 24, 2019, 2:18 PM CDT for 27 counties in Kansas; 25 counties in Oklahoma. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2019, 2:18 PM CDT (19:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2019, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 52 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Grant County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Logan County, OK, Major County, OK, Noble County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Washington County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK
The radar
The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:20 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
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
75 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Woods | 30 min |
| May 24, 2:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, Sedgwick and 1 more | 7 hr |
| May 24, 2:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Greenwood | 48 min |
| May 24, 2:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Chase, Marion | 5 hr |
| May 24, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis, Roger Mills | 46 min |
| May 24, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Chase, Marion | 60 min |
| May 24, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harper, Kingman, Sumner | 52 min |
| May 24, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley, Sedgwick, Sumner | 60 min |
| May 24, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis, Woodward | 35 min |
| May 24, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Blaine, Dewey, Major, Woods | 30 min |
| May 24, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase, Greenwood | 67 min |
| May 24, 4:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley | 39 min |
| May 24, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Garfield, Major | 47 min |
| May 24, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 44 min |
| May 24, 4:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Lyon | 50 min |
| May 24, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis, Harper, Woods, Woodward | 49 min |
| May 24, 4:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Chase, Greenwood | 36 min |
| May 24, 4:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler | 33 min |
| May 24, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Custer, Dewey | 52 min |
| May 24, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Harvey, Sedgwick | 49 min |
| May 24, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Major | 48 min |
| May 24, 5:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Butler, Greenwood | 43 min |
| May 24, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Greer, Harmon, Jackson | 54 min |
| May 24, 5:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Major, Noble | 4 hr |
| May 24, 5:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Lyon, Morris | 4 hr |
| May 24, 5:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Coffey, Lyon, Osage | 33 min |
| May 24, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Harvey, Sedgwick | 27 min |
| May 24, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kay, Noble | 38 min |
| May 24, 5:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase, Harvey, Marion, Sedgwick | 2 hr |
| May 24, 5:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Major | 3 hr |
| May 24, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant | 52 min |
| May 24, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Franklin | 21 min |
| May 24, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey, Osage | 48 min |
| May 24, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase, Greenwood, Marion, Woodson | 59 min |
| May 24, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Woods, Woodward | 44 min |
| May 24, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Coffey, Osage | 18 min |
| May 24, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Kingfisher | 50 min |
| May 24, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman | 61 min |
| May 24, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey, Franklin, Osage | 43 min |
| May 24, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey | 40 min |
| May 24, 6:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 13 hr |
| May 24, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield | 38 min |
| May 24, 6:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Anderson | 4 hr |
| May 24, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Grant, Kay, Noble | 39 min |
| May 24, 6:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey, Osage | 4 hr |
| May 24, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Caddo, Custer, Dewey, Kingfisher, Washita | 43 min |
| May 24, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin, Osage | 56 min |
| May 24, 6:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin | 4 hr |
| May 24, 6:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Blaine, Canadian, Garfield, Kingfisher | 4 hr |
| May 24, 6:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley, Sumner | 3 hr |
| May 24, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase, Elk, Greenwood, Woodson | 62 min |
| May 24, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Garfield, Grant, Kingfisher, Major | 47 min |
| May 24, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo, Comanche, Greer, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman and 1 more | 61 min |
| May 24, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Grant, Kay, Noble | 44 min |
| May 24, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kingfisher, Logan | 40 min |
| May 24, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Kingfisher, Logan, Noble, Payne | 49 min |
| May 24, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley, Elk, Sumner | 60 min |
| May 24, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey, Franklin | 42 min |
| May 24, 7:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Greenwood | 3 hr |
| May 24, 7:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 6 hr |
| May 24, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Kay, Logan, Noble, Payne | 46 min |
| May 24, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Douglas, Franklin | 30 min |
| May 24, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 55 min |
| May 24, 7:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Woodson | 12 hr |
| May 24, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Grady, Kiowa and 1 more | 67 min |
| May 24, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kingfisher, Logan | 35 min |
| May 24, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kay | 41 min |
| May 24, 8:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Garfield, Logan, Noble, Payne | 4 hr |
| May 24, 8:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Elk | 3 hr |
| May 24, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Pawnee | 62 min |
| May 24, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian, Kingfisher | 46 min |
| May 24, 8:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ICT | Allen, Neosho, Wilson | 3 hr |
| May 24, 9:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Comanche, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman | 4 hr |
| May 24, 9:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Garfield, Grant, Kay, Noble | 6 hr |
| May 24, 9:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Canadian, Lincoln, Logan, Oklahoma, Payne | 4 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
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 2066 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 237 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 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, 9:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford | 4 hr |
| 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, 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.