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Tornado Watch 309

May 25, 202429 counties in Kansas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 25, 2024, 5:23 PM CDT for 29 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 25, 2024, 5:23 PM CDT (22:23 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 2024, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
3 in
Strongest gust expected
70 kt
All 29 counties

Barton County, KS, Chase County, KS, Clay County, KS, Cloud County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Ellis County, KS, Ellsworth County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jewell County, KS, Lincoln County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Mitchell County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osborne County, KS, Ottawa County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Republic County, KS, Rice County, KS, Riley County, KS, Rooks County, KS, Rush County, KS, Russell County, KS, Saline County, KS, Smith County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
80%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
70%
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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatDDCEllis, Ness, Rush17 min
May 25, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne, Rooks45 min
May 25, 6:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCPawnee, Rush15 min
May 25, 6:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne, Rooks, Smith22 min
May 25, 6:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPhillips, Rooks28 min
May 25, 7:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith36 min
May 25, 7:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDJewell, Mitchell, Osborne46 min
May 25, 7:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith37 min
May 25, 8:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatGIDJewell, Mitchell48 min
May 25, 8:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatTOPCloud62 min
May 25, 8:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatGIDJewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith46 min
May 25, 8:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPRepublic42 min
May 25, 8:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne, Smith22 min
May 25, 8:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatGIDJewell, Mitchell40 min
May 25, 8:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPWashington22 min
May 25, 8:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDJewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith33 min
May 25, 8:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCloud33 min
May 25, 8:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTHarvey, McPherson, Marion21 min
May 25, 9:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatTOPMarshall, Washington50 min
May 25, 9:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCloud, Republic32 min
May 25, 9:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLincoln20 min
May 25, 9:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMarshall, Nemaha38 min
May 25, 9:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMarshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie, Riley35 min
May 25, 10:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICTLincoln33 min
May 25, 10:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPCloud, Ottawa29 min
May 25, 10:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay32 min
May 25, 10:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPOttawa36 min
May 25, 10:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMorris34 min
May 25, 11:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPClay, Dickinson36 min
May 25, 11:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPMorris34 min
May 25, 11:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatTOPLyon, Morris, Wabaunsee37 min
May 26, 12:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOPLyon, Osage, Shawnee, Wabaunsee36 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 218 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2024-05-25Temperature 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, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2024-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 169 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 2:56 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Comanche, Cowley, Harper, Kingman, Pratt and 2 more4 hr
May 25, 3:26 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPCBarber, Butler, Chautauqua, Clark, Comanche, Cowley and 13 more11 hr
May 25, 4:41 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Graham, Logan, Norton and 7 more2 hr
May 25, 6:07 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarber, Comanche, Edwards, Harper, Kingman, Kiowa and 4 more83 min
May 25, 6:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCheyenne, Decatur, Graham, Norton, Phillips, Rawlins7 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.