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Tornado Watch 133
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 25, 2024, 1:53 PM MDT for 7 counties in Colorado; 13 counties in Kansas; 5 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 25, 2024, 1:53 PM MDT (19:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 2024, 8:53 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 25 counties
Cheyenne County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Logan County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Washington County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Decatur County, KS, Gove County, KS, Graham County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Logan County, KS, Norton County, KS, Rawlins County, KS, Sheridan County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Thomas County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Chase County, NE, Dundy County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Hitchcock County, NE, Red Willow County, NE
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:53 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
- 60%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 40%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 70%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- 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
44 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 2:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 63 min |
| Apr 25, 2:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Morgan, Washington | 51 min |
| Apr 25, 3:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman | 59 min |
| Apr 25, 3:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 66 min |
| Apr 25, 3:27 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BOU | Washington | 18 min |
| Apr 25, 3:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins, Thomas | 59 min |
| Apr 25, 3:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 33 min |
| Apr 25, 3:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy, Hitchcock | 54 min |
| Apr 25, 3:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Washington | 49 min |
| Apr 25, 4:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Logan, Washington | 29 min |
| Apr 25, 4:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Rawlins | 59 min |
| Apr 25, 4:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 27 min |
| Apr 25, 4:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Wichita | 42 min |
| Apr 25, 4:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins | 55 min |
| Apr 25, 4:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan, Thomas | 63 min |
| Apr 25, 4:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins, Thomas | 39 min |
| Apr 25, 4:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 20 min |
| Apr 25, 4:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Logan, Wallace, Wichita | 56 min |
| Apr 25, 4:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Phillips | 31 min |
| Apr 25, 5:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Hitchcock, Red Willow | 58 min |
| Apr 25, 5:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Wichita | 26 min |
| Apr 25, 5:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 24 min |
| Apr 25, 5:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Sherman, Thomas | 37 min |
| Apr 25, 5:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Rawlins, Thomas | 61 min |
| Apr 25, 5:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Phillips, Sedgwick | 29 min |
| Apr 25, 5:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Rawlins | 37 min |
| Apr 25, 5:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 33 min |
| Apr 25, 5:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Red Willow | 31 min |
| Apr 25, 5:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | Phillips | 30 min |
| Apr 25, 5:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Logan, Thomas | 30 min |
| Apr 25, 5:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Dundy, Hitchcock | 28 min |
| Apr 25, 5:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace | 61 min |
| Apr 25, 5:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas, Wichita | 49 min |
| Apr 25, 6:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Greeley, Logan, Wallace, Wichita | 26 min |
| Apr 25, 6:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman | 46 min |
| Apr 25, 6:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove | 23 min |
| Apr 25, 7:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Graham, Norton, Sheridan | 26 min |
| Apr 25, 7:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Gove, Graham, Sheridan | 50 min |
| Apr 25, 7:15 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GLD | Decatur, Norton | 12 min |
| Apr 25, 7:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 59 min |
| Apr 25, 7:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Graham, Norton, Sheridan | 56 min |
| Apr 25, 7:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Decatur, Rawlins, Sheridan, Thomas | 66 min |
| Apr 25, 8:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 55 min |
| Apr 25, 8:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Graham, Norton | 45 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -229 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 799 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 1:23 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kit Carson, Washington, Yuma | 3 hr |
| Apr 25, 4:02 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baca, Kiowa, Prowers | 4 hr |
| Apr 25, 4:42 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Phillips, Washington, Yuma | 2 hr |
| Apr 25, 2:29 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Clay and 22 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 25, 2:47 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Grant, Haskell, Kearny, Morton, Seward and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 25, 12:51 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banner, Dawes, Scotts Bluff, Sioux | 114 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.