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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 38
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Feb 5, 2008, 3:59 PM CST for 13 counties in Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 5, 2008, 3:59 PM CST (21:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 5, 2008, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Anderson County, TX, Angelina County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Leon County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Panola County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Sabine County, TX, San Augustine County, TX, Shelby County, TX, Smith County, TX
The radar
The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 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
- 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
- 30%
- 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
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 4:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson, Henderson, Van Zandt | 33 min |
| Feb 5, 4:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson, Freestone, Leon | 48 min |
| Feb 5, 4:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Smith, Wood | 60 min |
| Feb 5, 4:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cherokee | 36 min |
| Feb 5, 4:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Gregg, Harrison, Rusk | 46 min |
| Feb 5, 5:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Camp, Cass, Harrison, Marion, Morris, Upshur | 42 min |
| Feb 5, 5:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Rusk | 37 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 11:16 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, De Soto, Jackson and 6 more | 89 min |
| Feb 5, 12:11 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | East Carroll, Morehouse, West Carroll | 94 min |
| Feb 5, 2:08 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Claiborne, East Carroll and 14 more | 10 hr |
| Feb 5, 3:36 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Claiborne, Lincoln, Morehouse, Ouachita, Union | 84 min |
| Feb 5, 2:00 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Callahan and 40 more | 3 hr |
| Feb 5, 2:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke, Coryell and 36 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 5, 5:03 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bosque, Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Delta, Denton and 17 more | 117 min |
| Feb 5, 11:56 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Delta, Fannin, Franklin and 11 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 5, 2:15 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Collin, Dallas and 23 more | 90 min |
| Feb 5, 3:17 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bowie, Delta, Franklin, Hopkins, Lamar, Rains and 2 more | 88 min |
| Feb 5, 5:54 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend, Galveston and 14 more | 96 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.