Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 314
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 13, 2008, 6:06 PM CDT for 16 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 2008, 6:06 PM CDT (23:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2008, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Bandera County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Burnet 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
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:07 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
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 40%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 76 min |
| May 13, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 70 min |
| May 13, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney, Val Verde | 31 min |
| May 13, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney, Val Verde | 28 min |
| May 13, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 24 min |
| May 13, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Real | 61 min |
| May 13, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Gillespie, Kerr, Real | 53 min |
| May 13, 10:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Kerr | 51 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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 2095 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -339 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 687 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 330 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 6:26 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Delta, Denton and 13 more | 94 min |
| May 13, 9:37 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Bell, Bosque, Bowie, Brazos and 61 more | 53 min |
| May 13, 1:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Callahan, Clay, Coleman, Eastland, Erath and 10 more | 3 hr |
| May 13, 2:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bell, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Clay, Coleman and 48 more | 9 hr |
| May 13, 5:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Edwards, Kerr, Kimble, Kinney, Mason and 9 more | 91 min |
| May 13, 5:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bosque, Brown, Clay, Collin, Comanche, Cooke and 33 more | 115 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.