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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 285

May 3, 200613 counties in Oklahoma; 40 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 3, 2006, 3:56 PM CDT for 13 counties in Oklahoma; 40 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 3, 2006, 3:56 PM CDT (20:56 UTC)
Expired
May 3, 2006, 11:00 PM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
3 in
Strongest gust expected
70 kt
All 53 counties

Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Grady County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK, Archer County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Borden County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Clay County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Foard County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 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
20%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
10%
Ten or more severe wind reports
30%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
30%
Ten or more severe hail reports
70%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
50%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
90%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 3, 5:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Lubbock62 min
May 3, 5:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd, Motley20 min
May 3, 5:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey40 min
May 3, 5:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLamb47 min
May 3, 6:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale56 min
May 3, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley55 min
May 3, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Lubbock65 min
May 3, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent62 min
May 3, 6:50 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBKent40 min
May 3, 6:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens53 min
May 3, 6:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale63 min
May 3, 7:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLubbock33 min
May 3, 7:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby39 min
May 3, 7:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent63 min
May 3, 7:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza56 min
May 3, 7:41 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBKent64 min
May 3, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens60 min
May 3, 7:53 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBDickens, Kent67 min
May 3, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd49 min
May 3, 8:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBriscoe48 min
May 3, 8:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby20 min
May 3, 8:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHall52 min
May 3, 8:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent61 min
May 3, 8:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens56 min
May 3, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza45 min
May 3, 9:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBStonewall67 min
May 3, 9:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFScurry65 min
May 3, 9:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent45 min
May 3, 9:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBorden46 min
May 3, 9:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTFisher61 min
May 3, 10:06 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFScurry54 min
May 3, 10:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTHaskell62 min
May 3, 10:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBStonewall29 min
May 3, 10:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBorden63 min
May 3, 10:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFDawson61 min
May 3, 10:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKnox23 min
May 3, 10:57 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFScurry63 min
May 3, 11:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTFisher, Jones60 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 153 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2006-05-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 193 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2006-05-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 226 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
193 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-444 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2004 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
226 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
254 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 2, 7:42 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCarter, Cleveland, Coal, Creek, Garfield, Garvin and 18 more93 min
May 2, 8:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtoka, Bryan, Carter, Coal, Garvin, Grady and 8 more5 hr
May 2, 9:24 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBryan, Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Garvin, Grady and 10 more96 min
May 2, 10:32 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBryan, Johnston, Love, Marshall, Murray88 min
May 3, 1:28 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Latimer, Marshall, Pittsburg and 1 more32 min
May 3, 12:46 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCraig, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Ottawa59 min
May 3, 2:42 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlfalfa, Craig, Delaware, Dewey, Ellis, Garfield and 15 more33 min
May 3, 2:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Craig, Custer, Delaware and 21 more7 hr
May 3, 3:42 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCComanche, Cotton, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman93 min
May 3, 6:38 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlfalfa, Blaine, Craig, Custer, Dewey, Ellis and 14 more97 min
May 2, 7:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBosque, Collin, Comanche, Concho, Cooke, Coryell and 28 more6 hr
May 2, 8:47 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDimmit, Edwards, Kinney, Maverick, Real, Sutton and 3 more58 min
May 3, 1:28 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBowie, Camp, Cass, Gregg, Harrison, Marion and 6 more32 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.