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Tornado Watch 242

May 25, 20195 counties in Kansas; 15 counties in Oklahoma; 25 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 25, 2019, 3:24 PM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas; 15 counties in Oklahoma; 25 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 25, 2019, 3:24 PM CDT (20:24 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 2019, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
3 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 45 counties

Barber County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Meade County, KS, Seward County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Baylor County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Foard County, TX, Garza County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Motley County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Wheeler County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 169 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
70%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
20%
Ten or more severe wind reports
70%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
20%
Ten or more severe hail reports
70%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
60%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
95%

Warnings issued inside it

51 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 3:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHaskell, Seward22 min
May 25, 4:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMABeaver26 min
May 25, 4:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAArmstrong, Donley35 min
May 25, 4:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Meade42 min
May 25, 4:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHarper40 min
May 25, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBriscoe, Floyd, Hale, Lamb, Swisher62 min
May 25, 5:05 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBFloyd, Hale, Swisher40 min
May 25, 5:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Ford, Meade39 min
May 25, 5:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBriscoe, Swisher54 min
May 25, 5:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHemphill, Wheeler56 min
May 25, 5:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWoods, Woodward54 min
May 25, 5:31 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAHemphill, Wheeler16 min
May 25, 5:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBeckham, Ellis, Roger Mills56 min
May 25, 5:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCClark, Ford22 min
May 25, 5:43 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBBriscoe, Floyd, Hale, Swisher47 min
May 25, 5:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBriscoe, Floyd, Hale, Motley, Swisher56 min
May 25, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNEllis, Harper, Woodward40 min
May 25, 5:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBriscoe, Hall61 min
May 25, 6:02 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBBriscoe28 min
May 25, 6:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNHarper, Major, Woods, Woodward38 min
May 25, 6:26 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDDCBarber, Clark, Comanche3 hr
May 25, 6:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBeckham, Custer, Dewey, Greer, Kiowa, Roger Mills and 1 more49 min
May 25, 6:34 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBBriscoe, Floyd, Hall, Motley26 min
May 25, 6:38 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNWoodward3 hr
May 25, 6:38 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNCuster, Dewey12 min
May 25, 6:48 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNBeckham, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Greer, Harmon and 3 more3 hr
May 25, 6:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBriscoe, Childress, Hall67 min
May 25, 6:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBriscoe, Floyd, Hale, Swisher36 min
May 25, 6:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNAlfalfa, Woods47 min
May 25, 6:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBeckham, Greer, Kiowa, Washita32 min
May 25, 7:05 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNBeckham, Greer, Kiowa, Washita40 min
May 25, 7:11 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNAlfalfa, Dewey, Garfield, Grant, Major, Woods and 1 more3 hr
May 25, 7:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCBarber32 min
May 25, 7:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBlaine, Custer, Dewey, Major47 min
May 25, 7:42 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNWashita33 min
May 25, 7:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNBlaine, Caddo, Canadian, Custer, Garfield, Kingfisher and 1 more6 hr
May 25, 7:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBeckham, Greer, Harmon37 min
May 25, 7:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBriscoe, Childress, Hall38 min
May 25, 7:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBlaine, Caddo, Canadian, Custer, Dewey, Kingfisher46 min
May 25, 8:03 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNBeckham, Greer, Kiowa, Washita27 min
May 25, 8:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACollingsworth, Wheeler37 min
May 25, 8:09 PM CDTTornado WarningAMACollingsworth, Wheeler22 min
May 25, 8:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWashita45 min
May 25, 8:16 PM CDTTornado WarningAMACollingsworth17 min
May 25, 8:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBeckham, Greer, Harmon41 min
May 25, 8:35 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNGreer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa3 hr
May 25, 8:54 PM CDTFlash Flood Warning EmergencyOUNBeckham, Greer, Washita6 hr
May 25, 8:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBeckham, Greer, Jackson, Kiowa, Washita62 min
May 25, 9:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBlaine, Caddo, Custer, Washita50 min
May 25, 9:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCaddo, Comanche, Jackson, Kiowa, Washita64 min
May 25, 9:46 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNCaddo, Custer, Greer, Kiowa, Washita6 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 188 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2019-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1631 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2019-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 228 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1631 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
661 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
228 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
201 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.1
Supercell composite
6.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 7:56 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChautauqua, Labette, Montgomery, Wilson64 min
May 24, 8:30 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBourbon, Linn2 hr
May 24, 9:16 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette29 min
May 25, 2:46 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 25 more2 hr
May 25, 3:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCEdwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Gove, Graham and 23 more6 hr
May 25, 3:06 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Comanche, Meade, Seward, Stevens114 min
May 25, 3:24 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCJohnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte3 hr
May 25, 5:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCDoniphan6 hr
May 25, 5:56 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Clark, Comanche, Harper, Kingman, Kiowa and 3 more2 hr
May 25, 6:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBarton, Butler, Chase, Cowley, Ellsworth, Harper and 11 more7 hr
May 25, 6:49 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCEdwards, Ellis, Finney, Ford, Gove, Graham and 21 more116 min
May 25, 12:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCimarron, Texas7 hr
May 25, 3:49 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCimarron, Texas116 min
May 24, 8:18 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCHockley, Lamb, Lubbock57 min
May 25, 12:12 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAndrews, Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Dallam, Deaf Smith and 8 more2 hr
May 25, 1:38 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrewster, Crane, Ector, Loving, Midland, Pecos and 5 more2 hr
May 25, 1:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAndrews, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines, Loving and 8 more7 hr
May 25, 5:35 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAndrews, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines, Martin and 6 more115 min
May 25, 6:25 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArmstrong, Bailey, Carson, Castro, Cochran, Deaf Smith and 12 more95 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.