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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 209
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 25, 2015, 6:45 AM CDT for 40 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 2015, 6:45 AM CDT (11:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2015, 12:52 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 40 counties
Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Concho County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, Kimble County, TX, King County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:46 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
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- 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
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
26 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 7:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Borden, Dawson, Gaines, Howard, Martin | 57 min |
| May 25, 7:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Howard, Mitchell, Scurry | 62 min |
| May 25, 7:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Ector, Glasscock, Martin, Midland | 51 min |
| May 25, 8:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Howard, Mitchell, Scurry | 67 min |
| May 25, 8:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble | 38 min |
| May 25, 8:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Martin, Midland | 3 hr |
| May 25, 8:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Borden, Dawson, Howard, Mitchell, Scurry | 3 hr |
| May 25, 8:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Howard, Mitchell, Reagan | 64 min |
| May 25, 9:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher, Nolan | 48 min |
| May 25, 9:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Mitchell, Scurry | 40 min |
| May 25, 9:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion, Sterling, Tom Green | 44 min |
| May 25, 9:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Sterling, Tom Green | 47 min |
| May 25, 9:51 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Fisher | 24 min |
| May 25, 9:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher, Jones, Nolan, Taylor | 47 min |
| May 25, 10:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Mason | 38 min |
| May 25, 10:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble, Mason | 47 min |
| May 25, 10:17 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Fisher, Jones | 28 min |
| May 25, 10:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Haskell, Jones, Shackelford, Taylor, Throckmorton | 52 min |
| May 25, 10:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman, Runnels | 44 min |
| May 25, 10:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble, Mason | 52 min |
| May 25, 11:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Haskell, Shackelford, Throckmorton | 58 min |
| May 25, 11:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown, Coleman, Runnels | 67 min |
| May 25, 11:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Taylor | 117 min |
| May 25, 11:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | McCulloch, Mason, San Saba | 17 min |
| May 25, 11:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | San Saba | 47 min |
| May 25, 12:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 32 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3636 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts | 93 min |
| May 24, 8:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hansford, Lipscomb, Ochiltree | 5 hr |
| May 25, 3:17 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Coke, Crane, Crockett, Ector, Edwards and 21 more | 4 hr |
| May 25, 6:50 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Crosby and 26 more | 55 min |
| May 25, 7:53 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Comal, Frio and 8 more | 2 hr |
| May 25, 9:02 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 27 more | 7 hr |
| May 25, 10:13 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Archer, Baylor, Bell, Bosque, Brown and 69 more | 2 hr |
| May 25, 10:54 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Bell, Bosque, Brown, Callahan and 55 more | 7 hr |
| May 25, 11:37 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 26 more | 113 min |
| May 25, 1:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Bosque, Clay, Collin, Cooke, Coryell and 26 more | 2 hr |
| May 25, 2:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Brazos, Burleson and 26 more | 95 min |
| May 25, 2:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Austin, Bowie, Brazos, Burleson, Camp and 34 more | 55 min |
| May 25, 2:52 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Bastrop, Blanco, Bowie, Brazos and 53 more | 8 hr |
| May 25, 3:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Dimmit, Edwards, Frio and 9 more | 56 min |
| May 25, 5:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Gregg, Harrison, Marion and 7 more | 90 min |
| May 25, 5:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Sabine | 6 hr |
| May 25, 6:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend, Galveston and 14 more | 54 min |
| May 25, 6:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Austin, Bee, Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, Colorado and 18 more | 9 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.