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Tornado Watch 194
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 27, 2014, 6:40 PM CDT for Brooks County, Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 2014, 6:40 PM CDT (23:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2014, 9:09 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Brooks County, TX, Kenedy County, TX, Willacy County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- 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
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks, Kenedy | 50 min |
| May 27, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Brooks, Kenedy | 24 min |
| May 27, 8:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BRO | Brooks, Kenedy | 48 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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 1370 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 803 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 252 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 8.9
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Comanche, Eastland, Erath, Hamilton, Jack, Lampasas and 4 more | 67 min |
| May 26, 8:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Borden, Coke, Crane, Crockett, Dickens, Edwards and 19 more | 86 min |
| May 26, 10:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Coleman, Concho, Irion, McCulloch, Reagan and 2 more | 54 min |
| May 26, 11:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Starr | 60 min |
| May 27, 2:17 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Caldwell, Comal and 9 more | 2 hr |
| May 27, 9:19 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange, Sabine | 56 min |
| May 27, 3:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Collin, Comanche and 30 more | 117 min |
| May 27, 3:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aransas, Atascosa, Bee, Duval, Frio, Goliad and 10 more | 62 min |
| May 27, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Callahan, Coleman and 45 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aransas, Atascosa, Bandera, Bee, Bexar, Blanco and 24 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 5:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aransas, Atascosa, Bee, Duval, Frio, Goliad and 10 more | 90 min |
| May 27, 6:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Bosque, Coryell, Ellis, Falls, Hamilton and 8 more | 90 min |
| May 27, 6:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kenedy, Willacy | 93 min |
Nearby
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.