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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 337

May 10, 200621 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 10, 2006, 3:20 PM CDT for 21 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 10, 2006, 3:20 PM CDT (20:20 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2006, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 21 counties

Aransas County, TX, Bee County, TX, Brooks County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Cameron County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Duval County, TX, Goliad County, TX, Hidalgo County, TX, Jim Hogg County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX, Kenedy County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Nueces County, TX, Refugio County, TX, San Patricio County, TX, Starr County, TX, Victoria County, TX, Willacy County, TX, Zapata County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 8 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 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: 10%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 5%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 30%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 30%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 50%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 40%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 70%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 3:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Jim Hogg, Zapata	49 min
May 10, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Lavaca	41 min
May 10, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Victoria	57 min
May 10, 3:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	DeWitt	36 min
May 10, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Hidalgo, Kenedy	46 min
May 10, 4:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Jim Hogg	27 min
May 10, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Jim Wells, Kleberg, Nueces	53 min
May 10, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Lavaca	15 min
May 10, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Brooks, Jim Hogg	34 min
May 10, 4:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	CRP	Victoria	37 min
May 10, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Kenedy	26 min
May 10, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Hidalgo, Kenedy, Willacy	42 min
May 10, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Victoria	66 min
May 10, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Kleberg, Nueces	65 min
May 10, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Hidalgo	46 min
May 10, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Brooks	30 min
May 10, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Goliad	52 min
May 10, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Hidalgo	47 min
May 10, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Jim Wells	25 min
May 10, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Calhoun, Refugio	58 min
May 10, 5:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	CRP	Calhoun	36 min
May 10, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Nueces	64 min
May 10, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Brooks, Hidalgo, Kenedy, Willacy	60 min
May 10, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Hidalgo	20 min
May 10, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	San Patricio	59 min
May 10, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Kleberg	67 min
May 10, 5:59 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BRO	Hidalgo	61 min
May 10, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Kenedy	25 min
May 10, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Aransas, Refugio	62 min
May 10, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Nueces	24 min
May 10, 6:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BRO	Kenedy	31 min
May 10, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Hidalgo, Willacy	45 min
May 10, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Cameron, Hidalgo	44 min
May 10, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	San Patricio	62 min
May 10, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Hidalgo	30 min
May 10, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Kleberg	63 min
May 10, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Kenedy	32 min
May 10, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Cameron, Willacy	31 min
May 10, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Kenedy, Willacy	23 min
May 10, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Refugio	44 min
May 10, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Brooks, Jim Hogg	24 min
May 10, 7:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	CRP	Kleberg	3 hr
May 10, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Kenedy	24 min
May 10, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Jim Hogg, Starr, Zapata	23 min
May 10, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Brooks, Kenedy	21 min
May 10, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Jim Wells, Kleberg	37 min
May 10, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Jim Hogg, Starr	27 min
May 10, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Brooks, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Starr	36 min
May 10, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Hidalgo	34 min
May 10, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Kenedy	31 min
May 10, 9:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Brooks	25 min
May 10, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Kenedy	8 min
May 10, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Willacy	25 min
May 10, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Hidalgo, Starr	34 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
May 9, 8:06 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Childress, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hall, Hardeman and 2 more	84 min
May 9, 9:18 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bowie, Red River	6 hr
May 9, 9:38 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Clay, Cooke, Fannin, Grayson, Hardeman and 5 more	97 min
May 9, 10:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Archer, Clay, Collin, Cooke, Delta, Fannin and 6 more	7 hr
May 10, 4:01 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bowie, Collin, Cooke, Delta, Fannin, Franklin and 8 more	89 min
May 10, 4:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bowie, Cass, Franklin, Morris, Red River, Titus	8 hr
May 10, 6:27 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bowie, Red River	93 min
May 10, 12:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Angelina, Nacogdoches, Panola, Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby and 1 more	115 min
May 10, 1:13 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Angelina, Cherokee, Hardin, Jasper, Nacogdoches, Newton and 6 more	8 hr
May 10, 2:34 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aransas, Austin, Bee, Brazoria, Brooks, Calhoun and 26 more	116 min
May 10, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend, Galveston and 11 more	5 hr
May 10, 5:04 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend, Galveston and 5 more	116 min
May 10, 6:06 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aransas, Brooks, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Kenedy and 6 more	114 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.