Tornadoes · United States · Kansas · 2008

EF0 tornado, Oswego to Oswego Muni Arpt, Kansas, May 10, 2008

Name: EF0 tornado, Oswego to Oswego Muni Arpt, Kansas, May 10, 2008
Start: 2008-05-10T22:19:00.000Z
End: 2008-05-10T22:20:00.000Z
Location: Oswego to Oswego Muni Arpt, Kansas

From Oswego to Oswego Muni Arpt, this EF0 tornado ran 1.0 miles across Labette County on May 10, 2008, touching down at 5:19 PM CDT and reaching 60 yards wide. It killed nobody.

The rating scale

Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Enhanced Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.

EF065 to 85 mphthis tornado
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
EF186 to 110 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
EF2111 to 135 mph
Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.
EF3136 to 165 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
EF4166 to 200 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
EF5over 200 mph
Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.
Unrated
The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

The record

Rating: EF0
Date: May 10, 2008
Touchdown: 5:19 PM CDT (22:19 UTC)
Lifted: 5:20 PM CDT (22:20 UTC)
On the ground: 1 minutes
Path length: 1.0 miles (1.7 km)
Path width: 60 yards (55 m)
Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
County: Labette County
Touchdown point: 37.150, -95.080
Lift-off point: 37.151, -95.061
Record number: 0805101619-02

What the Weather Service recorded

Supercell thunderstorms developed across South Central Kansas late on Saturday, May 10th, 2008, and moved into portions Southeast Kansas. The storms produced very large hail up to tennis ball size. Two supercells moved across Labette County, Kansas, one producing a brief tornado touchdown before moving into Cherokee County, Kansas, and the other a tornado 2 miles south of the Kansas/Oklahoma border south of Chetopa, Kansas. This supercell would eventually produce the EF4 tornado that struck Picher, Oklahoma.

A tornado touched down briefly in an open field, throwing corn stalk debris into the air.

The tornado touched down briefly in an open field.

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

The warnings

10 minutes of warning. NWS ICT issued a tornado warning for this county at 22:09 UTC, 10 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 22:30 UTC.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 16:29 UTC and running to 23:54 UTC.

Issued (UTC)	Expired	Product	Office
16:29 UTC	23:54 UTC	Tornado Watch	ICT
21:31 UTC	22:30 UTC	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT
22:09 UTC	22:30 UTC	Tornado Warning	ICT
22:19 UTC	22:30 UTC	Tornado Warning	ICT
00:11 UTC	07:54 UTC	Wind Advisory	ICT

Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.

The forecast that day

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Slight Risk, with a 0.10 chance of a tornado within 25 miles. The outlook in force was issued at 20:09 UTC.

SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the tornado touched down, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Wichita, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the tornado touched down at May 10, 2:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 10, 2:27 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
227 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2008

.DISCUSSION...
MAIN FORECAST CONCERNS ARE STRONG WINDS TONIGHT AND OUR NEXT
PRECIPITATION CHANCE ON TUESDAY.

TONIGHT:
CONVECTION IS ONGOING ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS THIS AFTERNOON...WHILE
THE COLD FRONT IS JUST MOVING INTO CENTRAL KANSAS AT 18Z. THE
CONVECTION IS EXPECTED TO BE EAST OF THE FORECAST AREA BY ABOUT 00Z
THIS EVENING...AND SKIES ARE GOING TO CLEAR FAIRLY QUICKLY AFTER
MIDNIGHT. TEMPERATURES TONIGHT WILL BE QUITE CHILLY ACROSS CENTRAL
KANSAS AS OVERNIGHT LOWS WILL BE IN THE MIDDLE 30S. FURTHER
SOUTHEAST WILL BE WARMER...WITH LOWS IN THE LOW TO MIDDLE 40S.

WINDS ARE GOING TO BE QUITE STRONG BEHIND THE FRONT TONIGHT ACROSS
MUCH OF THE AREA. WE WILL BE ADDING SOME COUNTIES TO THE EAST OF THE
CURRENT WIND ADVISORY AND KEEP THAT PORTION OF THE ADVISORY GOING
UNTIL 12Z BEFORE THE WINDS WEAKEN. THE WINDS MAY WEAKEN A BIT
EARLIER THAN THAT...BUT 12Z LOOKS LIKE THE BEST CHOICE RIGHT NOW.

SUNDAY-MONDAY:
SUNDAYS TEMPERATURES ARE GOING TO BE BELOW NORMAL WITH NORTHERLY
WINDS GRADUALLY BECOMING WEAKER THROUGHOUT THE DAY. SURFACE HIGH
PRESSURE WILL BUILD IN AND MAKE FOR A SUNNY DAY ACROSS THE FORECAST
AREA.

MONDAY WILL BE QUITE A BIT WARMER (MAYBE 10 DEGREES WARMER OR SO) AS
WINDS SHIFT TO THE SOUTH AGAIN AHEAD OF THE NEXT SYSTEM. STILL LOOKS
LIKE A FAIRLY SUNNY DAY...BUT A BIT BREEZY WITH THE SOUTHERLY WINDS.

TUESDAY-FRIDAY:
TUESDAY IS GOING TO BE A TRANSITION DAY IN THE UPPER PATTERN FROM
ZONAL TO MUCH MORE AMPLIFIED. A SURFACE FRONT WILL COME THROUGH
DURING THE DAY TUESDAY AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP NEAR
THE FRONT. THE MAIN FORCING IS OFF TO THE EAST BY 06Z FRIDAY...SO WE
REMOVED PRECIPITATION CHANCES AFTER 06Z FRIDAY. HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS
IN FOR WEDNESDAY AT THE SURFACE...AND SHOULD KEEP THINGS DRY UNTIL
FRIDAY. WITH NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT...IT WILL BE DIFFICULT TO HAVE
MUCH CONFIDENCE IN THE PRECIPITATION FORECAST FOR THE MIDDLE TO END
OF THE WEEK.  HOWEVER...CONFIDENCE IS HIGH THAT TEMPERATURES WILL BE
SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL DURING THIS TIME AND THE MAIN MOISTURE WILL BE
PUSHED SOUTH OF THE AREA SO NO MAJOR STORMS ARE ON THE HORIZON.

SCHRECK

&&

.AVIATION...
INITIAL CONCERN IS TIMING OF THUNDERSTORMS...WITH DEVELOPMENT
POSSIBLE IN THE VICINITY OF KICT NR ONSET OF FORECAST AND LIKELY
ONGOING IN SOUTHEAST KS IN THE VICINITY OF KCNU. FRONT WILL BE
NEAR KRSL AT 18Z ...AND RAPIDLY MOVE ACROSS ENTIRE AREA BY 0000
UTC. VERY GUSTY WINDS ANTICIPATED BEHIND FRONT WITH G30-40KT
LIKELY AT MOST SITES. SOME VFR WRAP AROUND CLOUDS THIS EVENING
WITH FEW IF ANY CLOUDS BY SUN MORNING.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
WICHITA-KICT    42  66  46  77 /  10   0   0   0
HUTCHINSON      40  66  46  78 /  10   0   0  10
NEWTON          41  66  45  77 /  10   0   0   0
ELDORADO        42  65  45  77 /  10   0   0   0
WINFIELD-KWLD   43  66  46  77 /  10   0   0   0
RUSSELL         37  67  45  81 /  10   0   0  10
GREAT BEND      37  68  46  82 /  10   0   0  10
SALINA          39  65  46  77 /  10   0   0  10
MCPHERSON       40  66  45  78 /  10   0   0  10
COFFEYVILLE     45  64  43  76 /  30   0   0   0
CHANUTE         44  62  43  75 /  30   0   0   0
IOLA            44  62  43  75 /  30   0   0   0
PARSONS-KPPF    44  64  43  76 /  30   0   0   0

&&

.ICT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 7 AM CDT SUNDAY FOR KSZ052-068-083-092.

WIND ADVISORY FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 7 AM CDT SUNDAY FOR
KSZ053-069-070-093-094-098.

WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 4 AM CDT SUNDAY FOR KSZ032-033-047-048-050-
067.

WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 4 AM CDT SUNDAY FOR KSZ049-051-082-091.

&&

Hazardous weather outlook, May 10, 3:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
337 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2008

KSZ032-033-047>053-067>072-082-083-091>096-098>100-112045-
RUSSELL-LINCOLN-BARTON-ELLSWORTH-SALINE-RICE-MCPHERSON-MARION-CHASE-
RENO-HARVEY-BUTLER-GREENWOOD-WOODSON-ALLEN-KINGMAN-SEDGWICK-HARPER-
SUMNER-COWLEY-ELK-WILSON-NEOSHO-CHAUTAUQUA-MONTGOMERY-LABETTE-
337 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL KANSAS...
SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND SOUTHEAST KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON IN THE VICINITY OF I-35 AND
THEN MOVE ACROSS SOUTHEAST KANSAS BEFORE SUNSET. LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THE SEVERE STORMS...AND ISOLATED
TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE. SEVERE WEATHER IS MOST LIKELY EAST OF A
LINE FROM IOLA TO SEDAN.

A WIND ADVISORY IS IN AFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL
KANSAS...AS WELL AS PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS. STRONG
NORTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE BEHIND THE COLD FRONT. PLEASE SEE
LATEST WIND ADVISORY FOR DETAILS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

GUSTY SOUTH WINDS WILL AFFECT CENTRAL KANSAS FOR MONDAY
AFTERNOON...AND A WIND ADVISORY COULD BE REQUIRED FOR THIS PERIOD.

A SECOND STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE OUT INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS ON
TUESDAY AND BRING CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS TO THE REGION AGAIN.
THERE IS A CHANCE FOR A FEW STRONG OR SEVERE STORMS ACROSS MAINLY
SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS...PLEASE CHECK LATER OUTLOOKS FOR UPDATED
INFORMATION.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY UNTIL SUNSET
TONIGHT...MAINLY EAST OF I-35.

&&

FOR A GRAPHICAL VERSION OF THIS INFORMATION...SEE OUR
WEBPAGE AT (LOWERCASE) HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/WICHITA/HWO/HWO.PHP

CJ/HOWERTON/SCHRECK

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 10, 4:40 PM CDT, 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
440 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0435 PM     HAIL             5 WNW PARSONS TRI CITY  37.36N 95.60W
05/10/2008  M1.00 INCH       MONTGOMERY         KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

            QUARTER SIZED HAIL

&&

JMB

Local storm report, May 10, 4:41 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
441 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0439 PM     HAIL             8 S THAYER              37.37N 95.47W
05/10/2008  E1.00 INCH       LABETTE            KS   LAW ENFORCEMENT

0425 PM     HAIL             SEDAN                   37.13N 96.18W
05/10/2008  E1.75 INCH       CHAUTAUQUA         KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

RBL

Local storm report, May 10, 4:44 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
444 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0440 PM     TSTM WND GST     PARSONS TRI CITY AIRPOR 37.33N 95.52W
05/10/2008  M70.00 MPH       MONTGOMERY         KS   ASOS

            MEASURED GUST AT THE AIRPORT.

&&

CDB

Special weather statement, May 10, 4:52 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
452 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2008

KSZ053-102215-
CHASE-
452 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2008

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WICHITA HAS ISSUED A SIGNIFICANT
WEATHER ALERT FOR CHASE COUNTY...

AT 447 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COTTONWOOD FALLS...AND
MOVING EAST AT 43 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM
AS IT MOVES ACROSS THE KANSAS TURNPIKE...EAST AND SOUTHEAST OF
BAZAAR.

DARMOFAL

Local storm report, May 10, 5:15 PM CDT, 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
515 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0442 PM     HAIL             DENNIS                  37.35N 95.42W
05/10/2008  E1.00 INCH       LABETTE            KS   LAW ENFORCEMENT

&&

RBL

Local storm report, May 10, 5:19 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
519 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0519 PM     FUNNEL CLOUD     2 SW OSWEGO             37.15N 95.14W
05/10/2008                   LABETTE            KS   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

JMB

The air that afternoon

The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.

Springfield, MO (KSGF), 12:00Z

10.3 hours before the tornado, 116 km from the path. May 10, 2008.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed. The warm shading is its CAPE, the cool shading the inhibition it has to break through.

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. RM and LM are the right and left moving storms Bunkers' method gives; the shaded area is the 0 to 1 km storm-relative helicity.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -84997 J/kg
Surface CAPE: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1161 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 153 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0
0-3 km lapse rate: 3.3 K/km

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

Springfield, MO (KSGF), 00:00Z

1.7 hours after it, 116 km from the path. May 11, 2008.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed. The warm shading is its CAPE, the cool shading the inhibition it has to break through.

Hodograph

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1049 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -94 J/kg
Surface CAPE: 170 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 590 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 76 kt
0-1 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 354 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 343 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.1
0-3 km lapse rate: 5.2 K/km

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The surface observations

Parsons (PPF), 43 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

Time (UTC)	Temp (°F)	Dew point (°F)	Wind	Gust (kt)	Pressure (mb)	Weather
20:52 UTC	78	66	200° 6 kt		999.3
21:18 UTC	75.2	64.4	150° 3 kt		997.6	TS
21:40 UTC	69.8	64.4	310° 38 kt	61	1000	+TSRA BR SQ
21:47 UTC	64.4	60.8	330° 18 kt	61	1000	TSRA SQ
21:52 UTC	62	60	10° 13 kt	25	999.7	TSRA BR
21:59 UTC	62.6	60.8	20° 8 kt	18	999.3	-TSRA
22:39 UTC	68	64.4	330° 3 kt		1000.3
22:52 UTC	69	66	290° 3 kt		1000.7
23:52 UTC	66	55	300° 32 kt	41	1003.4

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of airport observations.

The radar

The Tulsa radar (KINX), 117 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 22:17 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track

Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.

What was reported nearby

Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.

Time (UTC)	Report	Where	County	Remark
21:20 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	3 E Sycamore	Montgomery, KS	1.5 INCH HAIL OCCURED WITH STORM AND 11 INCH DIAMETER TREE LIMBS DOWN.
21:34 UTC	HAIL 1.5	2 N Cherryvale	Montgomery, KS	1.5 INCH HAIL
21:35 UTC	HAIL 1	5 Wnw Parsons Tri City	Montgomery, KS	QUARTER SIZED HAIL
21:38 UTC	HAIL 1.25	5 S Thayer	Neosho, KS
21:39 UTC	HAIL 1	8 S Thayer	Labette, KS
21:40 UTC	TSTM WND GST 70	Parsons Tri City Airpor	Montgomery, KS	MEASURED GUST AT THE AIRPORT.
21:42 UTC	HAIL 1	Dennis	Labette, KS
21:56 UTC	HAIL 0.88	Parsons	Labette, KS	DIME AND NICKEL HAIL
22:15 UTC	TORNADO	2 Ne Oswego	Labette, KS	BRIEF TOUCHDOWN OVER OPEN FIELD.
22:17 UTC	TORNADO	2 Nw Hallowell	Cherokee, KS	BRIEF TOUCHDOWN. LARGE FUNNEL CLOUD STILL PRESENT.
22:19 UTC	FUNNEL CLOUD	2 Sw Oswego	Labette, KS
22:19 UTC	TORNADO	2 Ssw Chetopa	Labette, KS
22:20 UTC	TORNADO	2 S Chetopa	Labette, KS	HOME WAS DAMAGED TWO MILES SOUTH OF CHETOPA ON NATIONS ROAD ON THE KANSAS SIDE OF THE OKLAHOMA BORDER.
22:21 UTC	TORNADO	2 S Chetopa	Labette, KS	REPORT OF TREE DAMAGE FROM TORNADO ALONG NATION ROAD IN SOUTHEAST CORNER OF COUNTY. PREVIOUS REPORT OF DAMAGE TO A HOME HAS NOT BEEN CONFIRMED IN LABETTE COUNTY.
22:22 UTC	TORNADO	2 Sse Chetopa	Labette, KS	TORNADO ON THE GROUND NEAR HIGHWAY 59 ALONG THE KANSAS AND OKLAHOMA STATE LINE.
22:23 UTC	TORNADO	2 W Faulkner	Cherokee, KS	NWS STORM SURVEY HAS FOUND AN EF0 TORNADO WITH A WIDTH OF 150 YARDS AND MAX WINDS OF 70 MPH. THE TORNADO BEGAN NEAR LOSTINE ROAD AND 120TH AT 37.10364 -95.04998 AND ENDED NEAR FALCON ROAD AND 100TH AT 37.09896 -95.01347.
22:23 UTC	TORNADO	5 W Melrose	Cherokee, KS	TORNADO CROSSING LABETTE CHEROKEE COUNTY BORDER EAST OF CHETOPA.
22:29 UTC	HAIL 0.75	Arma	Crawford, KS
22:31 UTC	HAIL 0.88	Mulberry	Crawford, KS
22:32 UTC	TORNADO	6 W Baxter Springs	Cherokee, KS
22:33 UTC	TORNADO	6 W Baxter Springs	Cherokee, KS
22:42 UTC	HAIL 1	Riverton	Cherokee, KS
22:42 UTC	TORNADO	5 Wsw Baxter Springs	Cherokee, KS	TORNADO DAMAGE PATH THREE QUARTERS OF A MILE WIDE ALONG THE KANSAS AND OKLAHOMA STATE LINE.
22:43 UTC	HAIL 2.75	Baxter Springs	Cherokee, KS
22:43 UTC	TORNADO	1 S Baxter Springs	Cherokee, KS	TORNADO ON THE GROUND JUST SOUTH OF BAXTER SPRINGS.
22:47 UTC	HAIL 1.75	3 E Riverton	Cherokee, KS
22:52 UTC	HAIL 4.25	1 S Baxter Springs	Cherokee, KS
00:11 UTC	TSTM WND GST 70	2 N Galena	Cherokee, KS	ESTIMATED 70 TO 80 MPH WIND

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.

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The other tornadoes of May 10, 2008

36 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 10	1:28 PM CDT	EF0	Washington, AR	0.1	50
May 10	5:03 PM CDT	EF2	Pittsburg, OK	8.2	200			$500,000
May 10	5:15 PM CDT	EF0	Labette, KS	0.3	50
May 10	5:19 PM CDT	EF0	McIntosh, OK	0.1	50
May 10	5:19 PM CDT	EF0	Cherokee, KS	2.0	150			$10,000
May 10	5:20 PM CDT	EF4	Picher–Neosho tornado, Oklahoma and Missouri	75.5	1,760	21	350	$61 million
May 10	5:21 PM CDT	EF0	Pittsburg, OK	0.1	50
May 10	5:25 PM CDT	EF0	Pittsburg, OK	0.5	75
May 10	5:25 PM CDT	EF0	Mayes, OK	0.1	50
May 10	5:34 PM CDT	EF0	Latimer, OK	5.5	100
May 10	5:42 PM CDT	EF2	Pittsburg, OK	19.0	580		4	$1.2 million
May 10	5:48 PM CDT	EF1	Ottawa, OK	2.3	200
May 10	6:05 PM CDT	EF2	Pushmataha, OK	3.5	100			$75,000
May 10	6:08 PM CDT	EF1	Jasper, MO	3.0	440	1	10	$1.0 million
May 10	6:30 PM CDT	EF1	Pushmataha, OK	1.5	200
May 10	6:35 PM CDT	EF1	Pushmataha, OK	0.5	100
May 10	6:35 PM CDT	EF1	Benton, AR	1.5	100			$100,000
May 10	6:58 PM CDT	EF0	Barry, MO	3.8	800
May 10	7:05 PM CDT	EF0	McCurtain, OK	0.4	50
May 10	7:14 PM CDT	EF1	White, AR	9.2	350			$25,000
May 10	7:42 PM CDT	EF0	White, AR	0.0	8
May 10	7:47 PM CDT	EF1	Lonoke, AR	2.7	400
May 10	7:51 PM CDT	EF0	Franklin, AR	0.1	50
May 10	7:55 PM CDT	EF1	Sevier, AR	1.5	100			$250,000
May 10	7:57 PM CDT	EF1	Woodruff, AR	10.2	500			$90,000
May 10	7:57 PM CDT	EF3	Arkansas, AR	14.1	1,320		9	$75 million
May 10	8:26 PM CDT	EF1	Monroe, AR	4.4	700			$25,000
May 10	9:04 PM CDT	EF0	Hempstead, AR	1.0	50			$5,000
May 10	9:32 PM CDT	EF1	Nevada, AR	2.4	50
May 10	9:33 PM CDT	EF1	Quitman, MS	0.3	30			$25,000
May 10	10:15 PM CDT	EF1	Tallahatchie, MS	8.7	100		2	$185,000
May 10	11:00 PM CDT	EF1	Lauderdale, AL	1.6	250			$100,000
May 10	11:18 PM CDT	EF1	Marion, AL	25.5	400			$100,000
May 10	11:59 PM CDT	EF1	Lauderdale, AL	1.0	250			$5,000
May 10	12:27 AM CDT	EF1	Walker, AL	9.3	400			$20,000
May 10	12:37 AM CDT	EF2	Walker, AL	13.5	330			$155,000

What this means

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

Sources

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.