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Tornado Watch 294

May 19, 202546 counties in Kansas; 49 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 19, 2025, 1:37 PM CDT for 46 counties in Kansas; 49 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 19, 2025, 1:37 PM CDT (18:37 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2025, 10:27 PM CDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 3 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 95 counties

Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Atchison County, KS, Bourbon County, KS, Brown County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Cherokee County, KS, Clay County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Crawford County, KS, Dickinson County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Labette County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Linn County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, Marshall County, KS, Miami County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Nemaha County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Pottawatomie County, KS, Riley County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Washington County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Atchison County, MO, Barry County, MO, Barton County, MO, Bates County, MO, Benton County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Camden County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Cedar County, MO, Christian County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Dade County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Greene County, MO, Henry County, MO, Hickory County, MO, Holt County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Jasper County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Lawrence County, MO, Livingston County, MO, McDonald County, MO, Morgan County, MO, Newton County, MO, Nodaway County, MO, Ozark County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Platte County, MO, Polk County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, St. Clair County, MO, Stone County, MO, Taney County, MO, Vernon County, MO, Webster County, MO, Worth County, MO, Wright County, MO

The radar

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:40 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: 60%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 60%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 70%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 10%
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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 19, 2:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Labette, Montgomery	46 min
May 19, 2:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Neosho	46 min
May 19, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cherokee, Crawford	38 min
May 19, 2:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Allen, Neosho, Wilson, Woodson	47 min
May 19, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Wyandotte	45 min
May 19, 2:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Anderson, Coffey	42 min
May 19, 2:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry, Harrison and 1 more	42 min
May 19, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Bourbon, Crawford	45 min
May 19, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Linn, Miami	38 min
May 19, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Anderson, Douglas, Franklin	46 min
May 19, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami, Wyandotte	54 min
May 19, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry, Grundy and 2 more	52 min
May 19, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Anderson, Coffey, Franklin	21 min
May 19, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Clay, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb, Ray	46 min
May 19, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Pottawatomie, Riley	31 min
May 19, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Wyandotte	41 min
May 19, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson, Geary, Riley	48 min
May 19, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Johnson, Miami	32 min
May 19, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cherokee, Crawford	45 min
May 19, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall	35 min
May 19, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Carroll, Clay, Clinton, Daviess, Grundy and 3 more	50 min
May 19, 4:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte	6 hr
May 19, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Johnson, Miami, Wyandotte	29 min
May 19, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Wyandotte	51 min
May 19, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Bourbon, Crawford	45 min
May 19, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley	40 min
May 19, 4:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb, Ray	6 hr
May 19, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Marshall	19 min
May 19, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Labette, Montgomery	61 min
May 19, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Caldwell, Clay, Clinton, Jackson, Lafayette, Ray	46 min
May 19, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Andrew, Buchanan, Clay, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb and 1 more	42 min
May 19, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Cass, Jackson, Johnson	26 min
May 19, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon, Wabaunsee	52 min
May 19, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Marshall	22 min
May 19, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Bourbon	24 min
May 19, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Clay, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb, Ray	48 min
May 19, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson, Nemaha, Pottawatomie	17 min
May 19, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie	49 min
May 19, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Marshall, Nemaha	30 min
May 19, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ICT	Neosho	29 min
May 19, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Cedar, St. Clair, Vernon	44 min
May 19, 5:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Bourbon	24 min
May 19, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee	37 min
May 19, 5:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford	6 hr
May 19, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Barry, McDonald, Newton	46 min
May 19, 5:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Vernon	23 min
May 19, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Carroll, Daviess, Grundy, Livingston, Ray	52 min
May 19, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Marion	16 min
May 19, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Cherokee, Crawford	32 min
May 19, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TOP	Lyon, Wabaunsee	47 min
May 19, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson, Morris	46 min
May 19, 5:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Bourbon	30 min
May 19, 5:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	St. Clair, Vernon	27 min
May 19, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Bourbon, Crawford	34 min
May 19, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson, Nemaha, Pottawatomie, Wabaunsee	26 min
May 19, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Bourbon	46 min
May 19, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon	41 min
May 19, 6:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Bourbon	6 hr
May 19, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	Barton, Cedar, Dade, Jasper, Lawrence, Newton and 1 more	64 min
May 19, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Harvey, Marion	31 min
May 19, 6:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Grundy, Linn, Livingston, Sullivan	6 hr
May 19, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Christian, Stone, Taney	61 min
May 19, 6:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	St. Clair	31 min
May 19, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson, Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	24 min
May 19, 6:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Vernon	24 min
May 19, 6:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Wabaunsee	4 hr
May 19, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	26 min
May 19, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Brown, Jackson, Nemaha	32 min
May 19, 6:31 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Jackson, Pottawatomie	4 hr
May 19, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Shawnee, Wabaunsee	37 min
May 19, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Geary, Morris, Wabaunsee	24 min
May 19, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Greene, Polk	50 min
May 19, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Benton, Cedar, Hickory, St. Clair, Vernon	65 min
May 19, 6:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	St. Clair	35 min
May 19, 6:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TOP	Wabaunsee	18 min
May 19, 6:42 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Bates, Henry	4 hr
May 19, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Greenwood	19 min
May 19, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chautauqua, Cowley	48 min
May 19, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SGF	McDonald	51 min
May 19, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Lyon, Morris, Wabaunsee	34 min
May 19, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Henry	28 min
May 19, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chase	68 min
May 19, 7:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Henry	18 min
May 19, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Christian, Stone, Taney	63 min
May 19, 7:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	SGF	Benton	26 min
May 19, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Chase, Marion	55 min
May 19, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Jackson, Shawnee, Wabaunsee	24 min
May 19, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison, Doniphan	36 min
May 19, 7:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	McDonald	6 hr
May 19, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Pettis	41 min
May 19, 7:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Camden, Dallas, Laclede	40 min
May 19, 7:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TOP	Lyon, Morris, Wabaunsee	4 hr
May 19, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Miller, Morgan	48 min
May 19, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Douglas, Jackson, Jefferson, Shawnee	32 min
May 19, 7:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Benton	32 min
May 19, 7:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison, Doniphan	41 min
May 19, 7:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Pettis	24 min
May 19, 7:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	Butler, Chase, Greenwood	38 min
May 19, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Atchison, Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte	41 min
May 19, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Barry, Christian, Stone, Taney	53 min
May 19, 8:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SGF	Christian, Douglas, Greene, Stone, Webster	6 hr
May 19, 8:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SGF	Webster, Wright	10 min
May 19, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Doniphan	38 min
May 19, 8:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Buchanan	19 min
May 19, 8:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EAX	Platte	14 min
May 19, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte	29 min
May 19, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Christian, Douglas, Ozark, Taney, Webster, Wright	42 min
May 19, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EAX	Doniphan	39 min
May 19, 9:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EAX	Atchison, Doniphan	3 hr
May 19, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EAX	Caldwell, Clay, Clinton, Daviess, DeKalb, Gentry and 1 more	52 min
May 19, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SGF	Douglas, Howell, Ozark, Texas, Wright	48 min
May 19, 10:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TOP	Dickinson	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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 61 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: 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

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 18, 7:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards and 23 more	119 min
May 18, 8:57 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Barton, Decatur, Ellsworth, Harper, Jewell, Kingman and 11 more	4 hr
May 18, 9:27 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Comanche, Edwards, Kiowa, Pratt	63 min
May 18, 10:05 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Jewell, Lincoln, Mitchell, Norton, Osborne, Phillips and 2 more	115 min
May 18, 11:41 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Reno	2 hr
May 19, 11:12 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chautauqua, Cowley, Montgomery	3 hr
May 19, 12:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Brown, Butler and 36 more	115 min
May 19, 3:12 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Marshall, Nemaha, Pottawatomie, Riley, Washington	2 hr
May 19, 5:17 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ellis, Finney, Ford, Gove, Grant, Gray and 14 more	118 min
May 19, 2:34 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dunklin, Pemiscot	116 min
May 19, 3:31 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Clark, Knox, Lewis, Linn, Macon and 6 more	89 min
May 19, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair, Chariton, Cooper, Grundy, Harrison, Howard and 7 more	6 hr
May 19, 5:21 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barry, Barton, Bates, Benton, Cass, Cedar and 17 more	114 min
May 19, 6:08 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atchison	2 hr
May 19, 12:37 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boone, Burt, Butler, Clay, Colfax, Cuming and 23 more	113 min
May 19, 1:11 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Antelope, Boone, Butler, Cass, Clay, Colfax and 25 more	7 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.