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Tornado Watch 308

May 25, 202419 counties in Kansas; 51 counties in Oklahoma; 16 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 25, 2024, 3:26 PM CDT for 19 counties in Kansas; 51 counties in Oklahoma; 16 counties in Texas. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 25, 2024, 3:26 PM CDT (20:26 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2024, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 11 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Particularly dangerous situation: Yes
Largest hail expected: 5 in
Strongest gust expected: 70 kt

All 86 counties

Barber County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Clark County, KS, Comanche County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Edwards County, KS, Elk County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Kiowa County, KS, Pawnee County, KS, Pratt County, KS, Reno County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Stafford County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Alfalfa County, OK, Atoka County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Coal County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Creek County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Grant County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Love County, OK, Major County, OK, Marshall County, OK, McClain County, OK, Murray County, OK, Noble County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Clay County, TX, Collin County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Montague County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Wise County, TX

The radar

The Vance AFB radar (KVNX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 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: 90%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 80%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 60%
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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 3:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Baylor	26 min
May 25, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Wichita, Wilbarger	46 min
May 25, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Archer, Baylor	41 min
May 25, 3:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Comanche, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman	38 min
May 25, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Archer, Baylor, Wichita, Wilbarger	34 min
May 25, 4:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman	42 min
May 25, 4:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Archer, Baylor	42 min
May 25, 4:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Tillman	25 min
May 25, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Cotton, Tillman	38 min
May 25, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer, Baylor, Wichita, Wilbarger	52 min
May 25, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer, Clay	50 min
May 25, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Caddo, Comanche, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman	48 min
May 25, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Cotton, Tillman	29 min
May 25, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Kiowa, Washita	43 min
May 25, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer, Baylor	40 min
May 25, 4:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Archer, Clay	49 min
May 25, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Clark, Comanche, Meade	51 min
May 25, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Comanche, Grady, Kiowa, Stephens	51 min
May 25, 4:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Archer, Baylor, Wichita	23 min
May 25, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cotton, Tillman	48 min
May 25, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Archer, Clay, Wichita	46 min
May 25, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Ellis	43 min
May 25, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Archer, Baylor, Wichita	43 min
May 25, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Custer, Washita	39 min
May 25, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Cotton	32 min
May 25, 5:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Clay	45 min
May 25, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Dewey, Ellis, Woodward	40 min
May 25, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Clark, Edwards, Ford, Kiowa	39 min
May 25, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Kingfisher	43 min
May 25, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Stephens	41 min
May 25, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Ellis, Harper, Woodward	41 min
May 25, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Barber, Clark, Comanche, Kiowa	38 min
May 25, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Clay	38 min
May 25, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Harper, Woods	20 min
May 25, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Harper, Woods, Woodward	41 min
May 25, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Major, Woodward	39 min
May 25, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Edwards, Kiowa, Pawnee, Stafford	39 min
May 25, 5:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Clay	35 min
May 25, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	60 min
May 25, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Blaine, Garfield, Kingfisher, Major	56 min
May 25, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jefferson	41 min
May 25, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford	14 min
May 25, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Barber, Comanche	52 min
May 25, 6:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Major, Woods, Woodward	47 min
May 25, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Blaine, Dewey, Major, Woodward	45 min
May 25, 6:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Major, Woodward	43 min
May 25, 6:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Blaine, Dewey, Major	41 min
May 25, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Pawnee, Rush	15 min
May 25, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jefferson, Love	46 min
May 25, 6:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Jefferson, Love	52 min
May 25, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Barber	51 min
May 25, 6:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Montague	39 min
May 25, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Major, Noble	47 min
May 25, 6:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Major, Woods	3 hr
May 25, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Harper	56 min
May 25, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Major, Woods	38 min
May 25, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Jefferson, Love	44 min
May 25, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Woods	41 min
May 25, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Woods	35 min
May 25, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Kiowa, Washita	33 min
May 25, 7:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Harper	45 min
May 25, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer, Clay	44 min
May 25, 7:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	DDC	Barber	13 min
May 25, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Garfield	39 min
May 25, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grant, Kay	27 min
May 25, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Major	38 min
May 25, 7:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Carter, Love	51 min
May 25, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Carter, Love, Marshall	50 min
May 25, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Cowley, Sumner	30 min
May 25, 7:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Alfalfa, Grant	25 min
May 25, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Garfield, Kingfisher	19 min
May 25, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Garfield, Noble, Payne	44 min
May 25, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Clay	40 min
May 25, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer, Clay	39 min
May 25, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Kingfisher, Noble	26 min
May 25, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	62 min
May 25, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Harper, Kingman, Sumner	34 min
May 25, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Carter, Johnston, Love, Marshall	39 min
May 25, 8:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Carter, Johnston, Love, Marshall	39 min
May 25, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Garfield, Logan, Noble, Payne	47 min
May 25, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Sedgwick	36 min
May 25, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Clay	50 min
May 25, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Butler, Harvey, Sedgwick	48 min
May 25, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kay	46 min
May 25, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Johnston, Marshall, Murray	37 min
May 25, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Jack, Montague, Wise	65 min
May 25, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley, Sumner	35 min
May 25, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	34 min
May 25, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Garfield, Grant, Kay, Noble	51 min
May 25, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Harvey, McPherson, Marion	21 min
May 25, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kay, Noble	49 min
May 25, 9:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Garfield, Kay, Noble	43 min
May 25, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	67 min
May 25, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Cowley, Sumner	28 min
May 25, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Cooke, Denton, Grayson, Montague, Wise	67 min
May 25, 9:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Montague	36 min
May 25, 9:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood	22 min
May 25, 9:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	42 min
May 25, 9:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Cooke	64 min
May 25, 10:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Osage, Pawnee	42 min
May 25, 10:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Cooke, Denton, Grayson	45 min
May 25, 10:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Osage, Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner, Washington	39 min
May 25, 10:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Craig, Mayes, Nowata, Osage, Rogers, Washington	49 min
May 25, 10:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Cooke, Grayson	64 min
May 25, 11:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	FWD	Collin, Cooke, Denton, Grayson	45 min
May 25, 11:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Cowley, Sumner	40 min
May 25, 11:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	FWD	Collin, Fannin, Grayson, Hunt	38 min
May 25, 11:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Cowley	43 min
May 25, 11:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Kay	19 min
May 26, 12:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Osage	43 min
May 26, 12:11 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Collin, Fannin, Hunt	49 min
May 26, 12:24 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Cowley	56 min
May 26, 12:29 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Osage	46 min
May 26, 1:03 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Nowata, Osage, Washington	42 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 277 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2220 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 169 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 411 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 2:56 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Comanche, Cowley, Harper, Kingman, Pratt and 2 more	4 hr
May 25, 4:41 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton and 7 more	2 hr
May 25, 5:23 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Barton, Chase, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis and 23 more	8 hr
May 25, 6:07 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Comanche, Edwards, Harper, Kingman, Kiowa and 4 more	83 min
May 25, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Norton, Phillips, Rawlins	7 hr
May 24, 9:02 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	LeFlore	118 min
May 25, 5:40 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Coal and 24 more	95 min
May 25, 1:41 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baylor, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Fisher and 19 more	94 min
May 25, 2:17 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche and 23 more	7 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.