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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 233
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 25, 2008, 3:26 PM CDT for 6 counties in Arkansas; McCurtain County, Oklahoma; 34 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 25, 2008, 3:26 PM CDT (20:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 2008, 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 41 counties
Hempstead County, AR, Howard County, AR, Little River County, AR, Miller County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Sevier County, AR, McCurtain County, OK, Anderson County, TX, Bell County, TX, Bowie County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Delta County, TX, Falls County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Marion County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Morris County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Rains County, TX, Red River County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Smith County, TX, Titus County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wood County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 165 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:25 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
- 5%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- 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
28 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman | 41 min |
| Apr 25, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis, Hill, Navarro | 53 min |
| Apr 25, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | McCurtain | 60 min |
| Apr 25, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | McCurtain | 78 min |
| Apr 25, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque, Hill, McLennan | 48 min |
| Apr 25, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Navarro | 50 min |
| Apr 25, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Navarro | 63 min |
| Apr 25, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hill, Limestone, Navarro | 40 min |
| Apr 25, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Coryell, McLennan | 62 min |
| Apr 25, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson, Freestone, Henderson, Navarro | 64 min |
| Apr 25, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Red River, Titus | 45 min |
| Apr 25, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone, Limestone, Navarro | 47 min |
| Apr 25, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Little River | 59 min |
| Apr 25, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Coryell, Falls, McLennan | 53 min |
| Apr 25, 5:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Bell | 52 min |
| Apr 25, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie, Franklin, Morris, Red River, Titus | 59 min |
| Apr 25, 6:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Bell | 38 min |
| Apr 25, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Navarro | 41 min |
| Apr 25, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Bell | 51 min |
| Apr 25, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls, Milam, Robertson | 48 min |
| Apr 25, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Bowie, Cass | 56 min |
| Apr 25, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Kaufman, Van Zandt | 34 min |
| Apr 25, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 35 min |
| Apr 25, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Milam | 65 min |
| Apr 25, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Lafayette, Miller, Nevada | 38 min |
| Apr 25, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cass | 43 min |
| Apr 25, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Milam | 31 min |
| Apr 25, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Milam | 28 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 25, 2:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Howard and 14 more | 90 min |
| Apr 25, 5:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Hempstead, Hot Spring, Howard, Little River, Miller and 5 more | 55 min |
| Apr 25, 6:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Fulton, Garland, Grant and 16 more | 65 min |
| Apr 25, 6:38 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Craig, Creek, Delaware, Kay, Lincoln, Logan and 14 more | 67 min |
| Apr 25, 4:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Bell, Blanco, Burnet, Coryell, Edwards and 15 more | 55 min |
| Apr 25, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell and 18 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2008Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Arkansas, 2008Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2008Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2008
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.