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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 78
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 1, 2013, 3:36 PM CDT for Harmon County, Oklahoma; 25 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 1, 2013, 3:36 PM CDT (20:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 1, 2013, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 26 counties
Harmon County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Borden County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Foard County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:37 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
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 60%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
23 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Hall | 31 min |
| Apr 1, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 46 min |
| Apr 1, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Swisher | 47 min |
| Apr 1, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall | 46 min |
| Apr 1, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Hall | 44 min |
| Apr 1, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 32 min |
| Apr 1, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 44 min |
| Apr 1, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Cottle, Hall, Motley | 48 min |
| Apr 1, 4:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 33 min |
| Apr 1, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress | 31 min |
| Apr 1, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hardeman | 42 min |
| Apr 1, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd, Motley | 35 min |
| Apr 1, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall | 30 min |
| Apr 1, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hardeman | 49 min |
| Apr 1, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Motley | 48 min |
| Apr 1, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Motley | 31 min |
| Apr 1, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Dickens, King, Motley | 30 min |
| Apr 1, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Foard, Knox | 41 min |
| Apr 1, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Dickens, King, Motley | 52 min |
| Apr 1, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Knox | 46 min |
| Apr 1, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King, Stonewall | 33 min |
| Apr 1, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Knox | 29 min |
| Apr 1, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Knox | 46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 7:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dimmit, Duval, Frio, Jim Wells, Kinney, Kleberg and 8 more | 93 min |
| Mar 31, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brooks, Hidalgo, Kenedy, Willacy | 69 min |
| Mar 31, 9:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brooks, Kleberg | 28 min |
| Apr 1, 3:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Borden, Briscoe, Childress, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens and 16 more | 67 min |
| Apr 1, 5:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baylor, Childress, Cottle, Dickens, Foard, Hall and 8 more | 93 min |
| Apr 1, 6:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Pecos, Terrell | 91 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.