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Tornado Watch 276
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 2, 2006, 2:39 PM CDT for 6 counties in Oklahoma; 43 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 2, 2006, 2:39 PM CDT (19:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2006, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 4 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 49 counties
Beckham County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Carson County, TX, Childress County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Foard County, TX, Garza County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Motley County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wheeler County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 60%
- 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
- 80%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 70%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
59 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson | 65 min |
| May 2, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 53 min |
| May 2, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 67 min |
| May 2, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 53 min |
| May 2, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Motley | 55 min |
| May 2, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Donley | 54 min |
| May 2, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Gray | 59 min |
| May 2, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 54 min |
| May 2, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 53 min |
| May 2, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 61 min |
| May 2, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Gray | 25 min |
| May 2, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 62 min |
| May 2, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 61 min |
| May 2, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 60 min |
| May 2, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Wheeler | 53 min |
| May 2, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Roger Mills | 51 min |
| May 2, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Motley | 45 min |
| May 2, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Donley | 56 min |
| May 2, 5:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 3 hr |
| May 2, 5:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hall | 47 min |
| May 2, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill | 35 min |
| May 2, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 51 min |
| May 2, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle | 60 min |
| May 2, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Nolan | 57 min |
| May 2, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 64 min |
| May 2, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harmon | 47 min |
| May 2, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Roger Mills | 47 min |
| May 2, 5:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Motley | 32 min |
| May 2, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 19 min |
| May 2, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 60 min |
| May 2, 6:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Cottle | 42 min |
| May 2, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress | 45 min |
| May 2, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke | 60 min |
| May 2, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 63 min |
| May 2, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth | 29 min |
| May 2, 6:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Hardeman | 42 min |
| May 2, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson | 63 min |
| May 2, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Irion, Sterling, Tom Green | 33 min |
| May 2, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham, Washita | 60 min |
| May 2, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Nolan | 30 min |
| May 2, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle | 44 min |
| May 2, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Knox | 35 min |
| May 2, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 29 min |
| May 2, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Jones, Taylor | 45 min |
| May 2, 7:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Coke, Nolan | 26 min |
| May 2, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hardeman | 35 min |
| May 2, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Irion, Runnels, Tom Green | 61 min |
| May 2, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Nolan | 30 min |
| May 2, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Wilbarger | 39 min |
| May 2, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Knox | 66 min |
| May 2, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Nolan | 30 min |
| May 2, 7:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Jackson, Tillman | 44 min |
| May 2, 7:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Jackson, Tillman | 44 min |
| May 2, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Nolan | 29 min |
| May 2, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Taylor | 31 min |
| May 2, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman, Concho, Runnels | 28 min |
| May 2, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman, Concho, McCulloch | 28 min |
| May 2, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan | 27 min |
| May 2, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown, Coleman | 23 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
Fort Sill, OK (KFSI), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 186 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 186 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -368 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1076 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 7:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Cotton, Jefferson, Johnston, Love, Marshall and 3 more | 84 min |
| May 2, 12:50 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Carter, Cherokee, Cleveland, Coal, Creek and 21 more | 115 min |
| May 2, 1:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Carter, Cherokee, Cleveland, Coal and 28 more | 9 hr |
| May 2, 1:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bryan, Cotton, Jefferson, Stephens | 8 hr |
| May 2, 3:52 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 32 more | 113 min |
| May 2, 7:38 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Cotton and 13 more | 97 min |
| May 2, 1:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Garvin and 10 more | 90 min |
| May 2, 2:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Greer and 6 more | 23 min |
| May 2, 5:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Custer and 10 more | 94 min |
| May 2, 5:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Custer and 8 more | 5 hr |
| May 2, 6:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Carter, Comanche and 16 more | 90 min |
| May 2, 3:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Bastrop, Blanco, Brazos, Burleson, Burnet and 25 more | 118 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.