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Tornado Watch 293
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 19, 2025, 1:11 PM CDT for 5 counties in Iowa; 31 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 19, 2025, 1:11 PM CDT (18:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2025, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 36 counties
Fremont County, IA, Mills County, IA, Montgomery County, IA, Page County, IA, Pottawattamie County, IA, Antelope County, NE, Boone County, NE, Butler County, NE, Cass County, NE, Clay County, NE, Colfax County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Douglas County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Gage County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Madison County, NE, Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Pierce County, NE, Platte County, NE, Polk County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Saline County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Seward County, NE, Stanton County, NE, Washington County, NE, York County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:10 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
- 50%
- 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
35 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 2:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Boone | 42 min |
| May 19, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Merrick, Nance | 40 min |
| May 19, 2:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Nance | 26 min |
| May 19, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton, Merrick, Polk | 40 min |
| May 19, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Hamilton, Polk, York | 37 min |
| May 19, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Boone, Madison, Platte | 31 min |
| May 19, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nance | 50 min |
| May 19, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Boone, Platte | 48 min |
| May 19, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Nuckolls | 41 min |
| May 19, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton, Merrick, Nance, Polk | 51 min |
| May 19, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton, Polk, York | 33 min |
| May 19, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Platte | 51 min |
| May 19, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Nuckolls | 48 min |
| May 19, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Polk | 47 min |
| May 19, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Butler, Colfax, Platte | 46 min |
| May 19, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Fillmore | 24 min |
| May 19, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage, Johnson, Nemaha, Pawnee, Richardson | 38 min |
| May 19, 4:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Butler, Colfax, Platte | 33 min |
| May 19, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Colfax, Cuming, Madison, Platte, Stanton | 26 min |
| May 19, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Butler, Colfax, Dodge, Platte, Saunders | 40 min |
| May 19, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Johnson, Nemaha, Pawnee, Richardson | 49 min |
| May 19, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Butler, Colfax, Cuming, Dodge, Saunders | 51 min |
| May 19, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Pawnee, Richardson | 51 min |
| May 19, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Dodge, Saunders | 30 min |
| May 19, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Butler, Colfax, Dodge, Saunders | 40 min |
| May 19, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Nemaha, Pawnee, Richardson | 44 min |
| May 19, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Butler, Lancaster, Saunders, Seward | 29 min |
| May 19, 5:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Pawnee, Richardson | 26 min |
| May 19, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Burt, Dodge, Washington | 51 min |
| May 19, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Dodge, Douglas, Saunders, Washington | 29 min |
| May 19, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Richardson | 31 min |
| May 19, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Lancaster | 23 min |
| May 19, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Burt, Washington | 46 min |
| May 19, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Lancaster, Otoe | 26 min |
| May 19, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Burt, Washington | 33 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 278 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
- 277 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -324 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 694 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 564 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 645 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 9.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 3:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Boone, Cass and 23 more | 89 min |
| May 19, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Cass, Clarke, Davis and 12 more | 6 hr |
| May 19, 6:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cass, Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 2 hr |
| May 19, 12:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrew, Barton, Bates, Buchanan, Cass, Cedar and 9 more | 115 min |
| May 19, 1:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrew, Atchison, Barry, Barton, Bates, Benton and 43 more | 9 hr |
| May 19, 2:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dunklin, Pemiscot | 116 min |
| May 19, 5:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barry, Barton, Bates, Benton, Cass, Cedar and 17 more | 114 min |
| May 18, 7:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Frontier, Furnas, Gosper, Hayes, Hitchcock, Lincoln and 1 more | 119 min |
| May 18, 8:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buffalo, Custer, Dawson, Franklin, Frontier, Furnas and 16 more | 4 hr |
| May 18, 10:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Buffalo, Dawson, Franklin, Frontier, Furnas and 7 more | 115 min |
| May 19, 12:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Burt, Butler, Clay, Colfax, Cuming and 23 more | 113 min |
| May 19, 3:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Cass, Colfax, Dodge, Douglas, Fillmore and 18 more | 2 hr |
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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.