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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 137
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 14, 2011, 10:04 PM CDT for 25 counties in Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 14, 2011, 10:04 PM CDT (03:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2011, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 25 counties
Anderson County, TX, Bell County, TX, Collin County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Denton County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Falls County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Rains County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:07 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
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Dallas, Denton, Fannin, Grayson | 62 min |
| Apr 14, 11:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Dallas, Delta, Hopkins, Hunt, Kaufman and 2 more | 58 min |
| Apr 14, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis, Hill | 67 min |
| Apr 14, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hopkins, Kaufman, Rains, Van Zandt | 64 min |
| Apr 14, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis, Hill, Limestone, McLennan, Navarro | 61 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
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 1770 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1507 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 302 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 17.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 8:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lamar | 84 min |
| Apr 14, 9:06 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Cooke, Delta, Fannin, Franklin, Grayson and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 14, 9:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Collin, Dallas, Denton, Hopkins, Hunt, Rockwall | 31 min |
| Apr 14, 11:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bowie, Delta, Fannin, Lamar, Red River, Titus | 94 min |
| Apr 14, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Marion and 7 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 14, 11:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Ellis, Freestone and 16 more | 94 min |
| Apr 15, 2:19 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Harrison, Nacogdoches, Panola, Rusk, Shelby | 8 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.