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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 398

June 15, 200757 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 15, 2007, 7:02 PM CDT for 57 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 15, 2007, 7:02 PM CDT (00:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2007, 2:20 AM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 57 counties

Andrews County, TX, Bandera County, TX, Borden County, TX, Brewster County, TX, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Concho County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Llano County, TX, Loving County, TX, Martin County, TX, Mason County, TX, Maverick County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Presidio County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Real County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Upton County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Val Verde County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Zavala County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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: 5%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 30%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 20%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 70%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 80%

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
Jun 15, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion	56 min
Jun 15, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Sterling, Tom Green	65 min
Jun 15, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Taylor	62 min
Jun 15, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	56 min
Jun 15, 7:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett	67 min
Jun 15, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	60 min
Jun 15, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion	66 min
Jun 15, 8:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Crockett, Irion	115 min
Jun 15, 8:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Tom Green	53 min
Jun 15, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett, Schleicher	62 min
Jun 15, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Runnels	66 min
Jun 15, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	61 min
Jun 15, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke	56 min
Jun 15, 9:06 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Reagan	3 hr
Jun 15, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion	62 min
Jun 15, 9:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	54 min
Jun 15, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Tom Green	64 min
Jun 15, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett, Schleicher, Sutton	65 min
Jun 15, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Runnels	64 min
Jun 15, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	35 min
Jun 15, 10:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Taylor	20 min
Jun 15, 10:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho	54 min
Jun 15, 10:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Coke	6 hr
Jun 15, 10:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Concho, Runnels, Tom Green	6 hr
Jun 15, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett	61 min
Jun 15, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	McCulloch	65 min
Jun 15, 10:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Crockett	61 min
Jun 15, 10:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	McCulloch	62 min
Jun 15, 10:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Sutton	61 min
Jun 15, 10:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Taylor	26 min
Jun 15, 10:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Sutton	67 min
Jun 15, 11:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	San Saba	36 min
Jun 15, 11:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards, Val Verde	57 min
Jun 15, 11:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Edwards, Val Verde	3 hr
Jun 15, 11:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett	65 min
Jun 15, 11:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	33 min
Jun 16, 12:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards, Val Verde	64 min
Jun 16, 12:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Real	49 min
Jun 16, 2:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bandera, Kerr	48 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
Jun 15, 10:32 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crane and 32 more	88 min
Jun 16, 1:38 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Comal, Dimmit, Frio and 6 more	67 min
Jun 16, 2:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bee, Bexar, Blanco and 31 more	2 hr

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.