Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches in 2008
Tornado Watch 219
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 23, 2008, 10:07 AM CDT for 31 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 23, 2008, 10:07 AM CDT (15:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2008, 3:52 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties
Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Coke County, TX, Concho County, TX, Crane County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Terry County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Upton County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:10 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.
Warnings issued inside it
20 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 10:09 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Borden | 66 min |
| Apr 23, 12:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden | 45 min |
| Apr 23, 12:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Scurry | 34 min |
| Apr 23, 1:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Borden | 3 hr |
| Apr 23, 2:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 41 min |
| Apr 23, 2:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden | 27 min |
| Apr 23, 2:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson, Gaines | 59 min |
| Apr 23, 2:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher | 26 min |
| Apr 23, 2:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 56 min |
| Apr 23, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Pecos | 49 min |
| Apr 23, 2:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher | 48 min |
| Apr 23, 2:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Fisher, Jones | 50 min |
| Apr 23, 2:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Scurry | 49 min |
| Apr 23, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 39 min |
| Apr 23, 3:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Dawson | 42 min |
| Apr 23, 3:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Fisher | 41 min |
| Apr 23, 3:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Scurry | 20 min |
| Apr 23, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 62 min |
| Apr 23, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Fisher, Haskell, Jones | 50 min |
| Apr 23, 3:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Fisher, Jones | 43 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 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 2797 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 758 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 13.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 2:01 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Wichita, Wilbarger | 89 min |
| Apr 23, 7:31 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Baylor, Borden, Briscoe, Carson, Childress and 36 more | 59 min |
| Apr 23, 9:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Armstrong, Bailey, Baylor, Briscoe, Carson and 46 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 23, 9:59 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Borden, Callahan, Coke, Dawson, Fisher, Garza and 18 more | 61 min |
| Apr 23, 11:42 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Denton, Fannin and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 23, 1:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Coke, Crane, Dawson, Ector and 20 more | 85 min |
| Apr 23, 2:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 18 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 23, 3:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 34 more | 59 min |
| Apr 23, 3:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 44 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 23, 3:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle and 15 more | 53 min |
| Apr 23, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Cochran and 31 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 23, 5:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 44 more | 92 min |
| Apr 23, 6:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bosque, Collin, Coryell, Dallas, Delta and 24 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
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.