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Tornado Watch 359
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 3, 2025, 1:38 PM CDT for Johnson County, Linn County, Miami County, Kansas; 25 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 2025, 1:38 PM CDT (18:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2025, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 28 counties
Johnson County, KS, Linn County, KS, Miami County, KS, Adair County, MO, Bates County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Carroll County, MO, Cass County, MO, Chariton County, MO, Cooper County, MO, Henry County, MO, Howard County, MO, Jackson County, MO, Johnson County, MO, Knox County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Lewis County, MO, Linn County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Macon County, MO, Marion County, MO, Monroe County, MO, Pettis County, MO, Randolph County, MO, Ray County, MO, Saline County, MO, Shelby County, MO, Sullivan County, MO
The radar
The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:38 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
- 30%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
18 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 1:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson, Miami | 15 min |
| Jun 3, 2:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami, Wyandotte | 53 min |
| Jun 3, 2:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Johnson | 37 min |
| Jun 3, 2:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami, Wyandotte | 5 hr |
| Jun 3, 2:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson, Lafayette, Ray | 36 min |
| Jun 3, 2:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Buchanan, Caldwell, Clay, Clinton, Jackson, Platte and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 3, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Carroll, Cass, Clay, Clinton, Jackson and 4 more | 52 min |
| Jun 3, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Clay, Jackson, Lafayette, Ray | 25 min |
| Jun 3, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Caldwell, Carroll, Chariton, Daviess, Grundy, Linn and 3 more | 62 min |
| Jun 3, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Cass, Chariton, Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette and 3 more | 47 min |
| Jun 3, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Saline | 44 min |
| Jun 3, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Carroll, Chariton, Cooper, Howard, Pettis, Saline | 49 min |
| Jun 3, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair, Chariton, Linn, Macon, Mercer, Putnam and 2 more | 58 min |
| Jun 3, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Knox | 48 min |
| Jun 3, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Adair, Chariton, Cooper, Howard, Linn, Macon and 3 more | 58 min |
| Jun 3, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Knox, Monroe, Shelby | 39 min |
| Jun 3, 4:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EAX | Linn, Miami | 4 hr |
| Jun 3, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LSX | Knox, Lewis, Marion, Monroe, Ralls, Shelby | 67 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 243 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -193 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 978 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 7:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Decatur, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas | 2 hr |
| Jun 2, 8:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barber, Barton, Ellis, Ellsworth, Graham, Harper and 18 more | 85 min |
| Jun 2, 10:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 8 more | 113 min |
| Jun 3, 12:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua and 18 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 3, 2:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Bourbon, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 3, 3:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Scotland | 2 hr |
| Jun 3, 3:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Carroll, Chariton, Cooper, Grundy, Howard and 8 more | 61 min |
| Jun 3, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Clark, Cole, Gasconade and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 3, 4:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barry, Barton, Camden, Cedar, Christian, Dade and 18 more | 89 min |
| Jun 3, 6:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lewis, Marion, Pike, Ralls | 91 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.