Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches in 2008
Tornado Watch 269
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 6, 2008, 6:19 PM CDT for 51 counties in Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 2008, 6:19 PM CDT (23:19 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2008, 9:53 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 51 counties
Armstrong County, TX, Borden County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Childress County, TX, Coke County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Concho County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Howard County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Moore County, TX, Motley County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:19 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
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 60%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 40%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 35 min |
| May 6, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Lubbock | 36 min |
| May 6, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 48 min |
| May 6, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens | 43 min |
| May 6, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Hale, Lamb, Swisher | 54 min |
| May 6, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd, Hale | 51 min |
| May 6, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Lubbock | 31 min |
| May 6, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 21 min |
| May 6, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens | 26 min |
| May 6, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Swisher | 53 min |
| May 6, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent | 59 min |
| May 6, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Hale, Lamb | 10 min |
| May 6, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Hale, Lamb, Swisher | 29 min |
| May 6, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Floyd, Hale, Motley, Swisher | 18 min |
| May 6, 8:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Dickens | 58 min |
| May 6, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, King | 53 min |
| May 6, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Floyd, Hall, Swisher | 59 min |
| May 6, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 45 min |
| May 6, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 33 min |
| May 6, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, Kent, King, Stonewall | 42 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 241 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
- 1418 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 655 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 324 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.2
- Supercell composite
- 9.8
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 7:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bailey, Castro, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hartley, Moore and 5 more | 61 min |
| May 5, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress and 33 more | 5 hr |
| May 5, 10:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Armstrong, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Carson and 36 more | 64 min |
| May 6, 1:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Cochran, Crane, Ector, Gaines, Loving and 9 more | 3 hr |
| May 6, 3:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Crane, Dawson and 15 more | 7 hr |
| May 6, 6:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Cochran, Crane, Crockett and 27 more | 89 min |
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.