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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 565
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 17, 2008, 10:07 PM CDT for 38 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 17, 2008, 10:07 PM CDT (03:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2008, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 38 counties
Andrews County, TX, Borden 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, Fisher County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Martin County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX
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
- 40%
- 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
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
18 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 54 min |
| Jun 17, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 62 min |
| Jun 17, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher | 45 min |
| Jun 17, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden | 55 min |
| Jun 17, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 54 min |
| Jun 17, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 50 min |
| Jun 17, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 31 min |
| Jun 17, 11:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 61 min |
| Jun 18, 12:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 67 min |
| Jun 18, 12:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 62 min |
| Jun 18, 12:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 46 min |
| Jun 18, 12:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Sterling | 41 min |
| Jun 18, 12:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 48 min |
| Jun 18, 12:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 39 min |
| Jun 18, 12:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Irion, Sterling, Tom Green | 61 min |
| Jun 18, 1:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Ector | 61 min |
| Jun 18, 1:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 58 min |
| Jun 18, 2:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Upton | 32 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 730 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3142 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 7:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bailey, Cochran, Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Parmer | 97 min |
| Jun 17, 9:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Cochran, Dawson, Gaines, Hockley and 3 more | 94 min |
| Jun 18, 2:30 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Concho, Crockett, Kimble, Menard, Schleicher, Sutton and 1 more | 60 min |
| Jun 18, 2:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hartley, Oldham, Parmer | 59 min |
| Jun 18, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hartley and 7 more | 7 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.