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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 233

May 8, 200510 counties in Oklahoma; 28 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 8, 2005, 2:05 PM CDT for 10 counties in Oklahoma; 28 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 8, 2005, 2:05 PM CDT (19:05 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2005, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 38 counties

Caddo County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Grady County, OK, Greer County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, McClain County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Clay County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Concho County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Foard County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jones County, TX, Knox County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:05 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.

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher	31 min
May 8, 2:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Runnels	36 min
May 8, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho, Runnels, Tom Green	30 min
May 8, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Jones, Shackelford	47 min
May 8, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho, Runnels	31 min
May 8, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman	30 min
May 8, 3:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Throckmorton	52 min
May 8, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho	32 min
May 8, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Shackelford	41 min
May 8, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman	32 min
May 8, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Jones	46 min
May 8, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown, Coleman	26 min
May 8, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	67 min
May 8, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche	49 min
May 8, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho	33 min
May 8, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Nolan, Taylor	39 min
May 8, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown	35 min
May 8, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan, Jones, Shackelford	46 min
May 8, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho	35 min
May 8, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan, Taylor	23 min
May 8, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche	48 min
May 8, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Taylor	46 min
May 8, 5:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Taylor	37 min
May 8, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo	51 min
May 8, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho, McCulloch	33 min
May 8, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho, Tom Green	36 min
May 8, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Grady	46 min
May 8, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Wichita	26 min
May 8, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Stephens	24 min
May 8, 5:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Taylor	35 min
May 8, 5:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Concho, McCulloch	34 min
May 8, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer	33 min
May 8, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Clay	41 min
May 8, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Wichita	35 min
May 8, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	McClain	30 min
May 8, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	McCulloch	33 min
May 8, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan, Coleman, Taylor	48 min
May 8, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho	17 min
May 8, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	McCulloch, Mason	32 min
May 8, 6:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	McCulloch, Mason	34 min
May 8, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Stephens	44 min
May 8, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Carter, Stephens	35 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 244 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: 1717 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 960 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.5

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 7, 8:51 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beaver, Beckham, Dewey, Ellis, Greer, Harmon and 4 more	54 min
May 8, 1:06 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Harmon, Jackson, Tillman	114 min
May 8, 5:39 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 29 more	96 min
May 8, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Alfalfa, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Garfield, Garvin and 17 more	5 hr
May 7, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Coke, Crockett, Fisher, Glasscock, Howard, Irion and 13 more	7 hr
May 7, 11:41 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett, Eastland and 13 more	94 min
May 8, 1:22 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Concho, Edwards, Kerr, Kimble, McCulloch, Mason and 6 more	53 min
May 8, 1:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bandera, Crockett, Edwards, Gillespie, Kerr, Kimble and 11 more	7 hr
May 8, 4:59 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bandera, Edwards, Gillespie, Hamilton, Kerr, Kimble and 6 more	61 min
May 8, 5:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anderson, Austin, Bandera, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar and 50 more	6 hr
May 8, 7:34 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Bandera, Bastrop, Blanco, Brazos, Burleson and 19 more	56 min
May 8, 8:37 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Angelina, Gregg, Harrison, Nacogdoches, Panola, Polk and 6 more	53 min
May 8, 11:26 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atascosa, Austin, Bee, Bexar, Brazoria, Caldwell and 25 more	64 min
May 8, 11:50 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Atascosa, Austin, Bandera, Bee, Bexar, Brazoria and 33 more	7 hr
May 8, 2:44 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atascosa, Austin, Bee, Brazoria, Colorado, DeWitt and 20 more	2 hr
May 8, 3:54 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chambers, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty, Montgomery and 8 more	96 min
May 8, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Aransas, Brooks, Duval, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Kenedy and 3 more	5 hr
May 8, 6:42 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Edwards, Kerr, Kimble, Mason, Real, San Saba	93 min

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.