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Tornado Watch 93
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 1, 2025, 11:51 PM CDT for 28 counties in Kansas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 1, 2025, 11:51 PM CDT (04:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2025, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 28 counties
Allen County, KS, Anderson County, KS, Butler County, KS, Chase County, KS, Chautauqua County, KS, Coffey County, KS, Cowley County, KS, Elk County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Greenwood County, KS, Harper County, KS, Harvey County, KS, Kingman County, KS, Labette County, KS, Lyon County, KS, Marion County, KS, McPherson County, KS, Montgomery County, KS, Morris County, KS, Neosho County, KS, Osage County, KS, Reno County, KS, Rice County, KS, Saline County, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Sumner County, KS, Wilson County, KS, Woodson County, KS
The radar
The Wichita radar (KICT), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:54 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
- 40%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 50%
- 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
19 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 11:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, McPherson, Saline | 53 min |
| Apr 2, 12:01 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Ellsworth, McPherson, Saline | 29 min |
| Apr 2, 12:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Saline | 25 min |
| Apr 2, 12:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Kingman, McPherson, Reno, Rice | 58 min |
| Apr 2, 12:42 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ICT | Reno | 33 min |
| Apr 2, 1:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Harvey, McPherson, Marion, Reno | 39 min |
| Apr 2, 1:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Dickinson, Geary, Morris, Riley | 28 min |
| Apr 2, 2:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Harvey, Sedgwick | 42 min |
| Apr 2, 3:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley, Sedgwick, Sumner | 41 min |
| Apr 2, 3:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Sumner | 32 min |
| Apr 2, 3:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Chase, Greenwood | 25 min |
| Apr 2, 3:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Lyon | 36 min |
| Apr 2, 3:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Butler, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Sumner | 47 min |
| Apr 2, 4:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Osage | 59 min |
| Apr 2, 4:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Montgomery and 2 more | 46 min |
| Apr 2, 4:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Coffey | 23 min |
| Apr 2, 4:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Anderson, Coffey, Douglas, Franklin, Osage | 51 min |
| Apr 2, 5:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Allen, Chautauqua, Elk, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho and 2 more | 91 min |
| Apr 2, 6:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ICT | Labette, Montgomery | 30 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Butler, Chase and 42 more | 10 hr |
| Apr 1, 8:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Cloud, Geary, Jewell, Lincoln, Marshall and 8 more | 64 min |
| Apr 1, 11:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Chase, Dickinson, Doniphan, Geary and 17 more | 117 min |
| Apr 2, 1:27 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bourbon, Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 2, 2:28 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atchison, Doniphan, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 2, 4:30 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 2 hr |
| Apr 2, 5:20 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 7 hr |
Nearby
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.