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Tornado Watch 342
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 28, 2025, 1:15 PM MDT for 7 counties in Colorado; 18 counties in Kansas; Beaver County, Texas County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 2025, 1:15 PM MDT (19:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2025, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 27 counties
Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Kit Carson County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Yuma County, CO, Cheyenne County, KS, Finney County, KS, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Greeley County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Logan County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Scott County, KS, Seward County, KS, Sherman County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Wallace County, KS, Wichita County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Texas County, OK
The radar
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:18 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
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 60%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 40%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
31 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 2:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Kit Carson | 54 min |
| May 28, 2:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 23 min |
| May 28, 2:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 60 min |
| May 28, 2:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 52 min |
| May 28, 3:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Yuma | 56 min |
| May 28, 3:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Kearny, Stanton | 36 min |
| May 28, 3:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 58 min |
| May 28, 3:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Stanton | 41 min |
| May 28, 4:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Cheyenne | 34 min |
| May 28, 4:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 64 min |
| May 28, 4:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa | 45 min |
| May 28, 4:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Seward, Stevens | 45 min |
| May 28, 4:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver, Texas | 60 min |
| May 28, 4:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Kiowa, Prowers | 54 min |
| May 28, 4:51 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Beaver | 39 min |
| May 28, 4:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GLD | Wichita | 23 min |
| May 28, 5:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Finney, Hamilton, Kearny, Scott | 39 min |
| May 28, 5:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Beaver | 32 min |
| May 28, 5:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Prowers | 23 min |
| May 28, 5:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver, Texas | 67 min |
| May 28, 5:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent | 43 min |
| May 28, 5:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 36 min |
| May 28, 5:56 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Beaver | 4 hr |
| May 28, 6:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 60 min |
| May 28, 6:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Bent, Prowers | 49 min |
| May 28, 6:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Stanton | 47 min |
| May 28, 6:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Bent, Las Animas, Otero | 37 min |
| May 28, 6:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca | 38 min |
| May 28, 6:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 66 min |
| May 28, 6:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PUB | Baca, Las Animas | 31 min |
| May 28, 8:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 66 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 938 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 11:53 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley and 14 more | 3 hr |
| May 28, 1:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Crowley, Elbert, El Paso, Las Animas, Lincoln, Otero and 2 more | 7 hr |
| May 28, 2:34 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca, Prowers | 56 min |
| May 28, 4:22 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Grant, Haskell, Meade, Seward, Stevens | 113 min |
| May 28, 4:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barber, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Harper and 4 more | 7 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.