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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 260
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 8, 2007, 6:58 PM CDT for 14 counties in Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 2007, 6:58 PM CDT (23:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2007, 11:13 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Bandera County, TX, Dimmit County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Llano County, TX, Maverick County, TX, Medina County, TX, Real County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Val Verde County, TX, Zavala County, TX
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
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 8:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 3 hr |
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 7, 7:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Collin, Cooke, Delta, Fannin, Franklin, Grayson and 6 more | 60 min |
| May 7, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Camp, Clay, Collin, Cooke, Delta, Denton and 15 more | 7 hr |
| May 7, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Briscoe, Childress, Coke, Cottle and 38 more | 7 hr |
| May 7, 9:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Dimmit, Edwards, Frio, Kerr, Kinney and 8 more | 67 min |
| May 7, 9:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Camp, Clay, Collin, Cooke, Delta, Denton and 15 more | 60 min |
| May 7, 11:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Cochran, Crosby, Dawson, Dickens and 12 more | 60 min |
| May 7, 11:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Cochran, Crosby, Dawson, Dickens and 17 more | 62 min |
| May 8, 11:19 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Borden, Callahan, Coke, Crane, Ector, Fisher and 20 more | 116 min |
| May 8, 12:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Brewster, Coke, Crane, Crockett and 27 more | 7 hr |
| May 8, 2:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Coke, Crockett, Fisher, Glasscock, Irion, Mitchell and 6 more | 91 min |
| May 8, 2:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Clay and 33 more | 2 hr |
| May 8, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Clay, Coleman and 28 more | 6 hr |
| May 8, 5:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Hardeman, Jack, Jones and 8 more | 96 min |
| May 8, 5:29 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Haskell, Jack, Montague and 8 more | 5 hr |
| May 8, 6:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Edwards, Kerr, Kinney, Medina, Real and 2 more | 62 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.