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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 281

June 5, 201353 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 5, 2013, 9:44 PM CDT for 53 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 5, 2013, 9:44 PM CDT (02:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2013, 5:00 AM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 53 counties

Andrews County, TX, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Borden County, TX, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Clay County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Concho County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Foard County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Motley County, TX, Nolan 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, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Yoakum County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:46 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: 10%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 2%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 40%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 10%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 30%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 70%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 9:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock, Terry, Yoakum	13 min
Jun 5, 9:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Dawson, Gaines	56 min
Jun 5, 9:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Taylor	51 min
Jun 5, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Cochran, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry and 1 more	35 min
Jun 5, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher, Jones, Nolan, Taylor	48 min
Jun 5, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Castro, Hale, Lamb, Lubbock, Swisher	30 min
Jun 5, 10:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher	51 min
Jun 5, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	31 min
Jun 5, 10:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell, Jones	40 min
Jun 5, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Garza, Hale, Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn and 1 more	34 min
Jun 5, 10:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Stonewall	29 min
Jun 5, 10:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Borden, Dawson, Ector, Gaines, Howard and 5 more	43 min
Jun 5, 10:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Shackelford	42 min
Jun 5, 10:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Floyd, Garza, Hale, Lubbock, Lynn	33 min
Jun 5, 10:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Jones	33 min
Jun 5, 11:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Shackelford	47 min
Jun 5, 11:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland, Stephens	58 min
Jun 5, 11:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Dawson, Glasscock, Howard, Martin, Mitchell and 1 more	48 min
Jun 5, 11:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Garza, Hale, Kent and 2 more	32 min
Jun 5, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell, Throckmorton	46 min
Jun 5, 11:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Crane, Ector, Glasscock, Martin, Midland and 3 more	44 min
Jun 5, 11:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent, King, Stonewall	31 min
Jun 5, 11:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Baylor, Knox	46 min
Jun 6, 12:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Howard, Midland, Mitchell, Reagan, Scurry and 1 more	60 min
Jun 6, 12:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Fisher, Nolan, Sterling	59 min
Jun 6, 12:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Young	64 min
Jun 6, 12:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto, Stephens, Young	52 min
Jun 6, 12:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Jones, Taylor	55 min
Jun 6, 1:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan, Shackelford	63 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 11:19 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Archer, Bailey, Baylor, Borden, Callahan and 37 more	116 min
Jun 6, 3:05 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Cooke, Denton, Montague, Parker, Tarrant and 2 more	55 min
Jun 6, 12:28 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Austin, Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, Colorado, Fayette and 19 more	92 min
Jun 6, 2:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Angelina, Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers and 22 more	8 hr
Jun 6, 4:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers, Fort Bend and 17 more	2 hr

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.