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Tornado Watch 134
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 25, 2024, 5:02 PM CDT for 17 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 5 counties in Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 25, 2024, 5:02 PM CDT (22:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 2024, 8:58 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 25 counties
Finney County, KS, Ford County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Hodgeman County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Lane County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Ness County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Trego County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Hansford County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 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
- 30%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 60%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 60%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton, Morton, Stanton | 36 min |
| Apr 25, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 33 min |
| Apr 25, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Hamilton | 37 min |
| Apr 25, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Lane, Scott | 17 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, 10.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1058 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -157 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 559 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 413 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 3:29 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Clay and 22 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 25, 2:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas, Wallace | 3 hr |
| Apr 25, 2:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Greeley, Logan and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 25, 3:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Finney, Grant, Haskell, Kearny, Morton, Seward and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 25, 5:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Greeley, Logan, Rawlins and 6 more | 2 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.