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Tornado Watch 213
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 23, 2013, 1:38 PM CDT for 5 counties in Oklahoma; 60 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 2013, 1:38 PM CDT (18:38 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2013, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 65 counties
Beckham County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Andrews County, TX, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Borden County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Foard County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Howard County, TX, Hutchinson 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, Mitchell County, TX, Moore County, TX, Motley County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Terry County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wheeler County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 80%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
41 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 1:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Floyd, Motley | 22 min |
| May 23, 2:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd, Motley | 46 min |
| May 23, 2:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Floyd, Motley | 25 min |
| May 23, 2:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Motley | 46 min |
| May 23, 3:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Dickens, King, Motley | 32 min |
| May 23, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Motley | 50 min |
| May 23, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, Dickens, King, Motley | 51 min |
| May 23, 4:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Dickens, Kent, King, Stonewall | 26 min |
| May 23, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Garza, Kent, Motley | 47 min |
| May 23, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Kent | 37 min |
| May 23, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Dickens, Kent, King, Stonewall | 32 min |
| May 23, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Winkler | 62 min |
| May 23, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Potter, Randall | 55 min |
| May 23, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, Kent, King, Stonewall | 38 min |
| May 23, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent | 47 min |
| May 23, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 56 min |
| May 23, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Knox | 43 min |
| May 23, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Dawson, Gaines, Martin | 55 min |
| May 23, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher, Jones | 39 min |
| May 23, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Scurry | 62 min |
| May 23, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore, Potter | 61 min |
| May 23, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell, Throckmorton | 46 min |
| May 23, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, Garza, Kent, King, Stonewall | 60 min |
| May 23, 6:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Fisher | 38 min |
| May 23, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Howard, Mitchell, Scurry | 63 min |
| May 23, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell, Jones, Shackelford, Throckmorton | 47 min |
| May 23, 6:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Fisher | 112 min |
| May 23, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher, Nolan | 46 min |
| May 23, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Haskell, Jones, Shackelford, Taylor, Throckmorton | 47 min |
| May 23, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 12 min |
| May 23, 7:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Scurry | 3 hr |
| May 23, 7:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Borden | 3 hr |
| May 23, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 16 min |
| May 23, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Dawson, Mitchell, Scurry | 61 min |
| May 23, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Haskell, Jones, Shackelford, Taylor, Throckmorton | 40 min |
| May 23, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Nolan | 50 min |
| May 23, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 46 min |
| May 23, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Jones, Runnels, Shackelford and 1 more | 49 min |
| May 23, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Glasscock, Howard, Martin | 61 min |
| May 23, 8:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Howard | 62 min |
| May 23, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Jones, Runnels, Shackelford and 1 more | 46 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 913 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -404 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1745 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 279 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 384 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 4:45 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Garvin and 10 more | 2 hr |
| May 23, 8:52 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Carter, Jefferson, Johnston, Love, Marshall and 1 more | 53 min |
| May 23, 12:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brewster, Crane, Jeff Davis, Loving, Pecos, Presidio and 4 more | 2 hr |
| May 23, 1:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Cottle, Crosby and 17 more | 116 min |
| May 23, 2:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brewster, Brown, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crane and 24 more | 8 hr |
| May 23, 3:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Castro, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Fisher, Floyd and 10 more | 88 min |
| May 23, 3:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brewster, Crane, Culberson, Ector, Jeff Davis, Loving and 8 more | 59 min |
| May 23, 6:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Borden, Briscoe, Callahan, Carson, Castro and 29 more | 95 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.