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Tornado Watch 281

May 28, 20196 counties in Kansas; 4 counties in Nebraska

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 28, 2019, 5:38 PM CDT for 6 counties in Kansas; 4 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 28, 2019, 5:38 PM CDT (22:38 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 2019, 8:47 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
2.5 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt

Counties Jewell County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Smith County, KS, Franklin County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Thayer County, NE, Webster County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
20%
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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 5:52 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGIDMitchell, Osborne38 min
May 28, 5:55 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDJewell, Mitchell35 min
May 28, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith52 min
May 28, 6:23 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDJewell, Mitchell37 min
May 28, 6:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDRooks48 min
May 28, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDJewell, Smith36 min
May 28, 6:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDMitchell27 min
May 28, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne, Rooks45 min
May 28, 7:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDMitchell, Osborne42 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 254 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, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 2019-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 2019-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -237 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
867 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
75 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-237 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 7:34 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Cloud, Ellis, Graham, Jewell, Lane and 13 more56 min
May 27, 8:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCJewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith6 hr
May 27, 10:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBrown, Marshall, Nemaha, Republic, Washington7 hr
May 27, 11:42 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCRepublic63 min
May 28, 1:23 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Doniphan2 hr
May 28, 1:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCDecatur, Norton, Rawlins4 hr
May 28, 9:39 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Clay, Cloud, Comanche, Dickinson and 19 more96 min
May 28, 12:04 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Coffey, Dickinson and 20 more86 min
May 28, 1:56 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Atchison, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson and 21 more8 hr
May 28, 2:02 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Barton, Butler, Chase, Cowley, Elk and 13 more88 min
May 28, 2:52 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBarton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk and 14 more7 hr
May 28, 2:55 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrown, Nemaha95 min
May 28, 3:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBrown, Cloud, Marshall, Nemaha, Republic, Washington7 hr
May 28, 3:23 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Ellis, Gove, Graham, Greeley and 15 more3 hr
May 28, 4:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCEllis, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Lane, Logan and 8 more5 hr
May 28, 5:12 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Jackson and 7 more93 min
May 28, 5:33 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCButler, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Cowley, Dickinson and 13 more87 min
May 28, 6:26 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Cloud, Jewell, Mitchell, Republic, Washington94 min
May 27, 8:47 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArthur, Buffalo, Chase, Custer, Dawson, Dundy and 13 more118 min
May 28, 4:58 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCass, Johnson, Nemaha, Otoe, Richardson2 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.