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Tornado Watch 258
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 28, 2006, 6:42 PM CDT for 17 counties in Oklahoma; 54 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 2006, 6:42 PM CDT (23:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2006, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 71 counties
Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Carter County, OK, Coal County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Murray County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Bell County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Clay County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Concho County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Foard County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Jones County, TX, Knox County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Mills County, TX, Montague County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:42 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
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 90%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 50%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
39 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Shackelford | 33 min |
| Apr 28, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Runnels, Taylor | 56 min |
| Apr 28, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 58 min |
| Apr 28, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 37 min |
| Apr 28, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hardeman | 39 min |
| Apr 28, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan | 61 min |
| Apr 28, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 46 min |
| Apr 28, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson | 41 min |
| Apr 28, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Stephens | 62 min |
| Apr 28, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Grayson | 62 min |
| Apr 28, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion | 41 min |
| Apr 28, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Stephens | 47 min |
| Apr 28, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lampasas | 59 min |
| Apr 28, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Bryan | 57 min |
| Apr 28, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion, Tom Green | 64 min |
| Apr 28, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Palo Pinto, Parker | 39 min |
| Apr 28, 9:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Lampasas | 40 min |
| Apr 28, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 44 min |
| Apr 28, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Coryell | 57 min |
| Apr 28, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Concho, Runnels, Tom Green | 40 min |
| Apr 28, 9:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Parker, Wise | 44 min |
| Apr 28, 9:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Concho, Runnels | 26 min |
| Apr 28, 9:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Montague, Wise | 3 hr |
| Apr 28, 9:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Coryell | 38 min |
| Apr 28, 9:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Denton, Tarrant | 51 min |
| Apr 28, 10:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Love, Marshall | 3 hr |
| Apr 28, 10:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Cooke | 3 hr |
| Apr 28, 10:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Coryell, Lampasas | 3 hr |
| Apr 28, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 63 min |
| Apr 28, 10:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Denton | 33 min |
| Apr 28, 10:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Denton | 3 hr |
| Apr 28, 11:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 66 min |
| Apr 28, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Grayson | 45 min |
| Apr 29, 12:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Falls, McLennan | 51 min |
| Apr 29, 12:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Montague, Wise | 2 hr |
| Apr 29, 12:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 34 min |
| Apr 29, 12:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Love, Marshall | 3 hr |
| Apr 29, 1:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Cooke | 3 hr |
| Apr 29, 1:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 64 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 28, 7:03 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Cimarron, Harper, Texas | 117 min |
| Apr 28, 10:23 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Custer, Ellis, Greer, Harmon, Jackson and 3 more | 97 min |
| Apr 28, 11:36 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa and 1 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 28, 1:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Jefferson and 5 more | 86 min |
| Apr 28, 6:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caddo, Carter, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Grady and 11 more | 53 min |
| Apr 28, 10:43 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Borden, Crosby, Dawson, Garza, Glasscock, Howard and 8 more | 92 min |
| Apr 28, 1:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Crockett, Edwards, Gillespie, Kerr, Kimble and 10 more | 62 min |
| Apr 28, 1:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Briscoe, Cottle, Dickens, Floyd, Foard, Hall and 7 more | 85 min |
| Apr 28, 1:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bandera, Blanco, Crockett, Edwards, Gillespie, Kendall and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 28, 3:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Childress, Coke, Cottle, Dickens, Fisher, Foard and 17 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 28, 3:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Crockett, Edwards, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 28, 6:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Bosque, Brazos, Brown, Burnet, Callahan and 42 more | 87 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.