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Tornado Watch 253

May 26, 201910 counties in Colorado; 24 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 26, 2019, 12:27 PM MDT for 10 counties in Colorado; 24 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2019, 12:27 PM MDT (18:27 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2019, 9:00 PM MDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 3 in
Strongest gust expected: 65 kt

All 34 counties

Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Finney County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Grant County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Logan County, KS, Morton County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:29 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: 70%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 50%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 70%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 30%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 80%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 80%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 12:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca	32 min
May 26, 1:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Baca, Prowers	19 min
May 26, 1:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Las Animas, Otero	29 min
May 26, 1:39 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Wallace	51 min
May 26, 2:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Greeley, Wallace	38 min
May 26, 2:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent	27 min
May 26, 2:18 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Wallace	2 hr
May 26, 2:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Prowers	50 min
May 26, 2:38 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	PUB	Kiowa, Prowers	37 min
May 26, 2:41 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent	34 min
May 26, 2:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Logan, Sherman, Thomas	44 min
May 26, 2:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Prowers	28 min
May 26, 2:57 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Logan	101 min
May 26, 2:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Grant, Gray, Haskell, Seward, Stevens	47 min
May 26, 3:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Lane, Ness	20 min
May 26, 3:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Prowers	33 min
May 26, 3:13 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Kiowa	15 min
May 26, 3:18 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Thomas	92 min
May 26, 3:24 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Thomas	36 min
May 26, 3:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Prowers	35 min
May 26, 3:43 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	DDC	Haskell	3 hr
May 26, 3:44 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	GLD	Rawlins, Sheridan, Thomas	31 min
May 26, 3:55 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Bent, Kiowa, Prowers	35 min
May 26, 3:56 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Decatur, Rawlins, Sheridan, Thomas	21 min
May 26, 4:12 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Decatur, Rawlins, Sheridan, Thomas	3 hr
May 26, 4:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	32 min
May 26, 4:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Decatur, Sheridan	47 min
May 26, 4:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Finney, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman	45 min
May 26, 4:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	43 min
May 26, 4:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Las Animas	39 min
May 26, 4:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, Pueblo	17 min
May 26, 4:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Graham, Norton	58 min
May 26, 4:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Crowley, El Paso, Pueblo	34 min
May 26, 4:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Kiowa	22 min
May 26, 4:44 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	31 min
May 26, 4:45 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	PUB	Kiowa	15 min
May 26, 4:54 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Decatur, Graham, Norton, Sheridan	2 hr
May 26, 4:58 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Sherman	105 min
May 26, 5:14 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	96 min
May 26, 5:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne	50 min
May 26, 5:50 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Kit Carson	25 min
May 26, 5:58 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Thomas	38 min
May 26, 6:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PUB	Prowers	33 min
May 26, 6:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	46 min
May 26, 6:24 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	GLD	Cheyenne	20 min
May 26, 6:28 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	32 min
May 26, 6:52 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	46 min
May 26, 6:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson, Yuma	46 min
May 26, 7:17 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Sherman	26 min
May 26, 7:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Cheyenne, Rawlins	37 min
May 26, 7:40 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Rawlins	31 min
May 26, 7:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Rawlins	53 min
May 26, 8:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Meade, Seward, Stevens	65 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 172 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 788 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -169 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 637 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 342 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 358 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 11:19 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Prowers	116 min
May 26, 2:07 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Larimer and 2 more	113 min
May 26, 2:43 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson and 6 more	92 min
May 26, 3:46 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Elbert, Lincoln, Morgan and 2 more	4 hr
May 26, 5:04 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baca, Bent, Prowers	86 min
May 25, 7:21 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chase, Chautauqua, Coffey and 22 more	54 min
May 25, 7:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee and 27 more	6 hr
May 26, 4:27 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Cloud, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Graham and 19 more	63 min
May 26, 4:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barton, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Ford, Gray and 16 more	6 hr
May 26, 5:56 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Morton, Seward, Stevens	64 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.