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Tornado Watch 319

May 26, 2024Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas; 25 counties in Missouri; Delaware County, Ottawa County, Oklahoma

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 26, 2024, 3:28 PM CDT for Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas; 25 counties in Missouri; Delaware County, Ottawa County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2024, 3:28 PM CDT (20:28 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2024, 8:48 PM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 30 counties

Bourbon County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Benton County, MO, Camden County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Greene County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Polk County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO, Delaware County, OK, Ottawa County, OK

The radar

The Springfield radar (KSGF), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:26 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: 40%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 20%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 20%
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: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, Camden, Morgan	41 min
May 26, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Dade, Greene, Polk	39 min
May 26, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene, Webster	57 min
May 26, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Benton, Miller, Morgan	54 min
May 26, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Craig, Delaware, Ottawa	48 min
May 26, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Benton, Camden, Hickory	62 min
May 26, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Camden, Dallas, Laclede	60 min
May 26, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	St. Clair	59 min
May 26, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Vernon	24 min
May 26, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Dallas, Greene, Polk	38 min
May 26, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	SGF	Camden, Maries, Miller, Morgan	66 min
May 26, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Barry, McDonald	61 min
May 26, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Camden, Dallas, Hickory, Laclede	67 min
May 26, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Wright	50 min
May 26, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Lawrence, Newton	20 min
May 26, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	SGF	Camden, Maries, Miller, Phelps, Pulaski	43 min
May 26, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Cedar, Hickory, Polk, St. Clair	56 min
May 26, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Cedar, Dallas, Hickory, Polk	64 min
May 26, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	SGF	Laclede, Phelps, Pulaski	62 min
May 26, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Benton, Camden, Dallas, Hickory	35 min
May 26, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Howell, Texas	49 min
May 26, 5:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Texas, Wright	39 min
May 26, 5:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Barry, McDonald	6 hr
May 26, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Barry, Stone	66 min
May 26, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Camden, Laclede, Maries, Miller, Phelps, Pulaski	66 min
May 26, 5:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Camden, Dallas, Hickory, Laclede, Polk, Pulaski and 1 more	6 hr
May 26, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Dallas, Hickory, Laclede, Polk, Pulaski	52 min
May 26, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Laclede, Texas, Webster, Wright	43 min
May 26, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Greene, Webster	31 min
May 26, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Christian, Lawrence, Stone	45 min
May 26, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Greene, Webster	50 min
May 26, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Christian, Douglas	51 min
May 26, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Christian, Stone, Taney	30 min
May 26, 7:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Douglas, Webster, Wright	40 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

Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 64 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: 505 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -252 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1003 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 368 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 742 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 12.9

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 7:28 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellis, Ellsworth, Geary and 14 more	2 hr
May 25, 8:19 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford, Elk, Harper and 5 more	86 min
May 25, 8:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Decatur, Graham, Norton, Phillips	113 min
May 25, 9:04 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Chautauqua and 22 more	8 hr
May 25, 9:41 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Doniphan and 23 more	2 hr
May 25, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Doniphan	4 hr
May 26, 12:07 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson	83 min
May 26, 1:36 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford, Labette	2 hr
May 25, 11:31 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Butler, Callaway, Camden, Carter, Cole, Crawford and 26 more	119 min
May 26, 1:03 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barry, Bollinger, Butler, Camden, Carter, Christian and 29 more	117 min
May 26, 2:35 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bollinger, Butler, Camden, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Christian and 33 more	7 hr
May 26, 4:12 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barry, Carter, Christian, Dade, Dallas, Dent and 17 more	93 min
May 26, 7:50 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Mississippi	115 min
May 26, 2:38 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford, Dent and 21 more	3 hr
May 26, 2:46 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford, Dent and 23 more	59 min
May 26, 4:01 PM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Cole, Crawford and 33 more	7 hr
May 26, 5:47 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Carter, Christian, Dent, Douglas, Howell, Iron and 10 more	88 min
May 26, 6:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cape Girardeau, Mississippi, Scott	87 min
May 26, 6:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Madison, Mississippi and 8 more	63 min
May 25, 10:40 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Craig, Nowata, Osage, Rogers, Tulsa, Washington	65 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.