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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 170
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 13, 2015, 3:09 PM CDT for 22 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 2015, 3:09 PM CDT (20:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2015, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 22 counties
Coke County, TX, Concho County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Dimmit County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Irion County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Maverick County, TX, Menard County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Real County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Val Verde County, TX, Zavala County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 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
- 20%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 5%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
18 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 43 min |
| May 13, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion, Tom Green | 19 min |
| May 13, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett, Schleicher, Sutton | 39 min |
| May 13, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 30 min |
| May 13, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 40 min |
| May 13, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Nolan, Taylor | 40 min |
| May 13, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett, Sutton | 46 min |
| May 13, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Nolan, Runnels, Taylor | 49 min |
| May 13, 5:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Nolan | 29 min |
| May 13, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 50 min |
| May 13, 5:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Nolan, Taylor | 31 min |
| May 13, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 38 min |
| May 13, 5:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 29 min |
| May 13, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 48 min |
| May 13, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sutton | 33 min |
| May 13, 5:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Taylor | 14 min |
| May 13, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Runnels, Taylor | 51 min |
| May 13, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 7:34 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Dimmit, Frio, La Salle, Medina, Real and 2 more | 56 min |
| May 13, 9:52 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Bastrop, Bee, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 27 more | 8 hr |
| May 13, 11:43 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bee, Duval, Live Oak | 2 hr |
| May 13, 12:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Borden, Coke, Concho, Crockett, Dawson, Fisher and 19 more | 2 hr |
| May 13, 2:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Cherokee, Freestone, Grimes, Henderson, Houston and 8 more | 3 hr |
| May 13, 3:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Briscoe, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Dickens, Donley and 9 more | 2 hr |
| May 13, 6:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett, Edwards, Irion and 14 more | 89 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.