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Tornado Watch 314

May 26, 20245 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 26, 2024, 2:35 AM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2024, 2:35 AM CDT (07:35 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2024, 9:40 AM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 98 counties

Baxter County, AR, Boone County, AR, Clay County, AR, Fulton County, AR, Greene County, AR, Izard County, AR, Lawrence County, AR, Marion County, AR, Newton County, AR, Randolph County, AR, Searcy County, AR, Sharp County, AR, Stone County, AR, Alexander County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Franklin County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Jackson County, IL, Jefferson County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Massac County, IL, Perry County, IL, Pope County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Randolph County, IL, Saline County, IL, Union County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Williamson County, IL, Ballard County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, McLean County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Union County, KY, Webster County, KY, Bollinger County, MO, Butler County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Carter County, MO, Christian County, MO, Crawford County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Dunklin County, MO, Greene County, MO, Howell County, MO, Iron County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Madison County, MO, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Oregon County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Pemiscot County, MO, Perry County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Polk County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Reynolds County, MO, Ripley County, MO, Saint Francois County, MO, Sainte Genevieve County, MO, Scott County, MO, Shannon County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Texas County, MO, Washington County, MO, Wayne County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO, Henry County, TN, Lake County, TN, Obion County, TN, Weakley County, TN

The radar

The St Louis radar (KLSX), 181 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:39 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: 50%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 40%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 20%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 40%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 90%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 2:58 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Boone	47 min
May 26, 3:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Stone	44 min
May 26, 3:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone, Marion, Newton, Searcy	45 min
May 26, 3:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone, Marion	47 min
May 26, 3:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Douglas, Taney	46 min
May 26, 3:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Webster, Wright	44 min
May 26, 3:32 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Douglas, Taney	28 min
May 26, 3:34 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Boone, Marion, Newton, Searcy	41 min
May 26, 3:36 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Webster, Wright	24 min
May 26, 3:44 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	SGF	Wright	31 min
May 26, 3:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Barry, Christian, Lawrence, Stone, Taney	41 min
May 26, 3:51 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Ozark, Taney	24 min
May 26, 3:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Boone, Izard, Marion	51 min
May 26, 3:54 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LZK	Baxter, Boone, Marion	51 min
May 26, 4:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas	57 min
May 26, 4:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cedar, Dade, Dallas, Greene, Hickory, Laclede and 2 more	41 min
May 26, 4:05 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Dade, Polk	6 hr
May 26, 4:07 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Ozark	38 min
May 26, 4:09 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Wright	25 min
May 26, 4:11 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Dallas	12 min
May 26, 4:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Boone, Marion, Newton, Searcy	29 min
May 26, 4:17 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Baxter, Fulton, Izard, Marion	43 min
May 26, 4:24 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	SGF	Douglas	37 min
May 26, 4:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Christian, Douglas, Ozark, Taney	49 min
May 26, 4:36 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LZK	Baxter, Fulton, Izard, Sharp	39 min
May 26, 4:39 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LZK	Baxter, Fulton	36 min
May 26, 4:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Boone, Marion	32 min
May 26, 4:44 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Dallas, Laclede	6 hr
May 26, 4:47 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Howell	17 min
May 26, 4:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Texas	48 min
May 26, 5:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Fulton, Izard, Marion, Stone	38 min
May 26, 5:08 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Fulton, Randolph, Sharp	52 min
May 26, 5:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Douglas, Howell, Oregon, Ozark	66 min
May 26, 5:12 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Baxter, Fulton	33 min
May 26, 5:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Shannon	41 min
May 26, 5:22 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Shannon	17 min
May 26, 5:24 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Fulton	36 min
May 26, 5:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Carter	30 min
May 26, 5:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Baxter, Fulton, Izard, Sharp, Stone	44 min
May 26, 5:31 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Oregon	44 min
May 26, 5:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Reynolds	38 min
May 26, 5:38 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Fulton, Randolph, Sharp	52 min
May 26, 5:41 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Fulton, Randolph, Sharp	34 min
May 26, 5:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Fulton, Izard, Lawrence, Randolph, Sharp	56 min
May 26, 5:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Iron	46 min
May 26, 6:02 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Ripley	43 min
May 26, 6:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Independence, Izard, Jackson, Lawrence, Sharp	26 min
May 26, 6:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Oregon	13 min
May 26, 6:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LSX	Madison, Saint Francois	45 min
May 26, 6:16 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Lawrence, Randolph, Sharp	29 min
May 26, 6:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MEG	Clay, Greene	42 min
May 26, 6:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Butler, Carter, Ripley, Stoddard, Wayne	38 min
May 26, 6:33 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Butler, Ripley, Stoddard	27 min
May 26, 6:38 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Stoddard, Wayne	37 min
May 26, 6:39 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Clay, Greene	38 min
May 26, 6:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Lawrence, Randolph	33 min
May 26, 6:47 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Carter, Ripley	18 hr
May 26, 6:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Alexander, Pulaski	46 min
May 26, 7:00 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Stoddard	30 min
May 26, 7:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Clay, Greene, Mississippi	42 min
May 26, 7:09 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Butler, Ripley, Stoddard, Wayne	9 hr
May 26, 7:22 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Alexander	23 min
May 26, 7:27 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	New Madrid	18 min
May 26, 7:28 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Pemiscot	24 min
May 26, 7:29 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Alexander	16 min
May 26, 7:37 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Alexander	10 hr
May 26, 7:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Alexander, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski, Union and 1 more	48 min
May 26, 7:46 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Ballard, Carlisle	29 min
May 26, 7:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Dyer, Gibson, Lake, Obion, Weakley	40 min
May 26, 8:08 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Graves, Hickman	20 min
May 26, 8:09 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Alexander, Pulaski, Union	9 hr
May 26, 8:12 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Johnson, Massac, Pulaski	19 min
May 26, 8:16 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Union, Williamson	3 hr
May 26, 8:17 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	PAH	Calloway, Graves, Marshall	17 min
May 26, 8:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Massac, Pope	40 min
May 26, 8:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Carroll, Gibson, Henry, Weakley	50 min
May 26, 8:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Gallatin, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Saline and 1 more	47 min
May 26, 8:29 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Shannon, Texas	6 hr
May 26, 8:30 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Massac, Pope	15 min
May 26, 8:33 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Calloway	13 min
May 26, 8:37 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Calloway, Marshall, Trigg	38 min
May 26, 8:44 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Lyon	31 min
May 26, 8:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Caldwell, Christian, Crittenden, Daviess, Henderson, Hopkins and 7 more	39 min
May 26, 8:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Benton, Henry	33 min
May 26, 9:00 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Christian	26 min
May 26, 9:13 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	PAH	Todd	23 min
May 26, 9:16 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Christian, Todd	20 min
May 26, 9:19 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Muhlenberg	26 min
May 26, 9:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	Christian, Daviess, Henderson, Hopkins, McLean, Muhlenberg and 2 more	37 min
May 26, 9:25 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Calloway	6 hr

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 225 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: 1925 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1164 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.3
Supercell composite: 10.7

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 8:19 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton	86 min
May 25, 9:04 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more	8 hr
May 25, 11:31 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Fulton, Greene, Izard, Lawrence, Marion and 2 more	119 min
May 26, 1:03 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clay, Craighead and 12 more	117 min
May 26, 4:12 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Fulton, Izard, Lawrence and 3 more	93 min
May 26, 2:38 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Fulton, Greene, Randolph	3 hr
May 26, 2:46 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Craighead, Fulton, Greene, Lawrence, Mississippi and 2 more	59 min
May 26, 3:28 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington	5 hr
May 26, 4:01 PM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	Baxter, Boone, Clay, Craighead, Fulton, Greene and 12 more	7 hr
May 26, 5:47 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Fulton, Izard, Marion and 1 more	88 min
May 26, 7:50 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope and 4 more	115 min
May 26, 3:26 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boone, DeKalb, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Lake and 2 more	94 min
May 26, 5:38 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bond, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford and 14 more	67 min
May 26, 5:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	McHenry	67 min
May 26, 6:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 11 more	87 min
May 26, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Clark, Coles, Cumberland, Edgar, Shelby	5 hr
May 26, 6:54 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Clay, Crawford, Edwards, Effingham, Gallatin, Hardin and 6 more	6 hr
May 26, 6:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alexander	63 min
May 26, 8:59 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bell, Boyle and 59 more	8 hr
May 26, 10:17 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Allen, Barren, Bell, Boyle, Casey and 26 more	88 min
May 26, 11:20 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Boyd, Bracken, Campbell and 21 more	85 min
May 26, 11:52 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Allen, Barren, Bell, Boyle, Casey and 32 more	83 min
May 26, 12:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Boyd, Bracken, Campbell and 21 more	7 hr
May 26, 12:13 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Floyd, Harlan, Knott, Letcher, Martin, Pike	92 min
May 26, 12:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Breathitt, Floyd, Harlan, Johnson, Knott, Leslie and 5 more	9 hr
May 26, 1:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clinton, Cumberland, McCreary, Monroe, Wayne	93 min
May 26, 2:25 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Martin, Pike	95 min
May 26, 5:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Calloway, Fulton	87 min
May 25, 9:41 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrew, Buchanan, Cass, Clay, Clinton, Holt and 3 more	2 hr
May 25, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Caldwell, Carroll, Chariton and 18 more	4 hr
May 26, 1:36 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barry, Barton, Benton, Camden, Cedar, Christian and 17 more	2 hr
May 26, 3:42 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Cannon, Cumberland and 19 more	63 min
May 26, 4:00 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Carter, Cocke, Greene, Johnson, Unicoi, Washington	90 min
May 26, 5:35 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Carter, Cocke, Greene, Sevier, Unicoi, Washington	85 min

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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.