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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 244
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 30, 2015, 12:32 PM CDT for 9 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 30, 2015, 12:32 PM CDT (17:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2015, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Dimmit County, TX, Frio County, TX, Kinney County, TX, La Salle County, TX, Maverick County, TX, Medina County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Webb County, TX, Zavala County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:34 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
- 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
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 12:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney | 45 min |
| May 30, 1:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney, Real, Uvalde | 47 min |
| May 30, 2:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Kinney, Uvalde | 3 hr |
| May 30, 2:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Comal, Hays, Kendall and 2 more | 4 hr |
| May 30, 3:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Webb | 86 min |
| May 30, 4:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe, Medina, Wilson | 4 hr |
| May 30, 5:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Duval, Live Oak, McMullen, Webb | 3 hr |
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 29, 7:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran and 35 more | 117 min |
| May 29, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Briscoe, Cochran, Coke, Crosby and 30 more | 7 hr |
| May 30, 12:58 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Eastland, Erath and 12 more | 92 min |
| May 30, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 37 more | 6 hr |
| May 30, 6:20 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Camp, Cherokee, Ellis, Freestone, Gregg and 14 more | 85 min |
| May 30, 10:14 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Panola, Shelby | 91 min |
| May 30, 12:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dimmit, Duval, Kinney, La Salle, Maverick, Webb and 2 more | 65 min |
| May 30, 5:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Bee, DeWitt, Duval, Goliad, Jim Hogg and 7 more | 59 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.