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Tornado Watch 324

June 2, 200953 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 2, 2009, 2:46 PM CDT for 53 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 2, 2009, 2:46 PM CDT (19:46 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 2009, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
3 in
Strongest gust expected
70 kt
All 53 counties

Andrews County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Borden County, TX, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Concho County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ector County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Howard County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mills County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Terry County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Yoakum County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:45 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
50%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
70%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
90%

Warnings issued inside it

39 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 2:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent53 min
Jun 2, 2:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLamb65 min
Jun 2, 2:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLubbock62 min
Jun 2, 3:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Garza61 min
Jun 2, 3:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent, Stonewall49 min
Jun 2, 3:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby, Garza, Kent59 min
Jun 2, 3:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTFisher43 min
Jun 2, 3:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTShackelford41 min
Jun 2, 3:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley, Lubbock63 min
Jun 2, 3:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey, Lamb49 min
Jun 2, 4:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza, Kent54 min
Jun 2, 4:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCallahan, Shackelford39 min
Jun 2, 4:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTFisher51 min
Jun 2, 4:28 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTCallahan, Shackelford47 min
Jun 2, 4:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCochran, Hockley34 min
Jun 2, 4:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey, Lamb59 min
Jun 2, 4:52 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTFisher38 min
Jun 2, 4:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry64 min
Jun 2, 5:07 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTCallahan, Shackelford38 min
Jun 2, 5:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley, Lubbock, Lynn52 min
Jun 2, 5:09 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTFisher, Nolan51 min
Jun 2, 5:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEastland85 min
Jun 2, 5:36 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTFisher, Jones, Taylor39 min
Jun 2, 5:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey, Cochran, Lamb30 min
Jun 2, 5:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCallahan43 min
Jun 2, 5:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTNolan42 min
Jun 2, 6:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTJones, Taylor36 min
Jun 2, 6:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTHaskell, Jones44 min
Jun 2, 6:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTBrown, Callahan, Coleman37 min
Jun 2, 6:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCoke, Nolan46 min
Jun 2, 6:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFHoward44 min
Jun 2, 7:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey, Parmer58 min
Jun 2, 7:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTBrown49 min
Jun 2, 7:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBorden, Howard, Mitchell, Scurry46 min
Jun 2, 8:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb56 min
Jun 2, 8:38 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTBrown82 min
Jun 2, 8:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCoke, Tom Green49 min
Jun 2, 9:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTom Green46 min
Jun 2, 9:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMills47 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 173 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2009-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1485 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2009-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 156 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1485 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-250 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1565 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
156 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
167 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 3:32 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArcher, Baylor, Foard, King, Knox, Throckmorton and 1 more118 min
Jun 2, 2:24 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBorden, Brown, Callahan, Cochran, Coke, Coleman and 27 more66 min
Jun 2, 4:05 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGray, Hemphill, Wheeler55 min
Jun 2, 5:16 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBorden, Brown, Burnet, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 36 more89 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.