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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 287
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 12, 2011, 3:18 AM CDT for 13 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 12, 2011, 3:18 AM CDT (08:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2011, 7:58 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Bandera County, TX, Dimmit County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Frio County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kinney County, TX, La Salle County, TX, Maverick County, TX, Medina County, TX, Real County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Val Verde County, TX, Zavala County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:22 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
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 70%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 3:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 47 min |
| May 12, 4:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 40 min |
| May 12, 5:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 40 min |
| May 12, 5:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 3 hr |
| May 12, 5:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney, Val Verde | 44 min |
| May 12, 6:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney, Uvalde | 60 min |
| May 12, 6:40 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Kinney | 35 min |
| May 12, 6:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Edwards, Kerr, Kinney, Maverick, Medina and 4 more | 61 min |
| May 12, 7:06 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 39 min |
| May 12, 7:45 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Uvalde | 45 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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 47 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
- 2151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2314 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 7:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bell, Blanco, Bowie, Burnet, Camp and 20 more | 62 min |
| May 11, 11:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Brazos, Burleson and 27 more | 65 min |
| May 12, 2:57 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Caldwell and 25 more | 33 min |
| May 12, 7:27 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Bandera, Bee, Bexar, Brooks, Dimmit and 26 more | 33 min |
| May 12, 7:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aransas, Atascosa, Bandera, Bee, Bexar, Brooks and 33 more | 9 hr |
| May 12, 8:46 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bastrop, Bell, Bosque, Brazos, Burleson, Caldwell and 22 more | 59 min |
| May 12, 9:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Austin, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Bosque and 53 more | 6 hr |
| May 12, 11:43 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Aransas, Austin, Bee, Brazos, Burleson and 33 more | 92 min |
| May 12, 1:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fannin, Grayson, Lamar | 119 min |
| May 12, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cooke, Fannin, Grayson, Lamar, Montague, Red River | 7 hr |
| May 12, 6:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cooke, Fannin, Grayson, Lamar | 90 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.