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Tornado Watch 235
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 24, 2019, 6:04 PM CDT for 7 counties in Kansas; 42 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2019, 6:04 PM CDT (23:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2019, 11:09 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 49 counties
Bourbon County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Adair County, MO, Audrain County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Boone County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Callaway County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Cole County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Henry County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Knox County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Lewis County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Marion County, MO, Moniteau County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Ralls County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Shelby County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Vernon County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 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
- 40%
- 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
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 34 min |
| May 24, 7:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 6 hr |
| May 24, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Miami | 44 min |
| May 24, 7:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Linn, Miami | 6 hr |
| May 24, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson | 30 min |
| May 24, 7:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Cass, Jackson | 37 min |
| May 24, 8:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Cass, Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette | 33 min |
| May 24, 8:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson, Lafayette | 26 min |
| May 24, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Carroll, Chariton, Lafayette, Ray, Saline | 48 min |
| May 24, 9:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Bourbon | 6 hr |
| May 24, 10:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGF | Cherokee, Crawford | 6 hr |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
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, 2:18 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey and 21 more | 8 hr |
| May 24, 12:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Pike | 90 min |
| May 24, 3:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Putnam, Schuyler | 65 min |
| May 24, 3:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Andrew, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll, Chariton and 21 more | 94 min |
| May 24, 6:23 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Scotland | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.