Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2015
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 60
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 16, 2015, 2:22 PM CDT for 87 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 2015, 2:22 PM CDT (19:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2015, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 87 counties
Anderson County, TX, Aransas County, TX, Austin County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bee County, TX, Bell County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Brazoria County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Chambers County, TX, Collin County, TX, Colorado County, TX, Comal County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Denton County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Falls County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Fort Bend County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Galveston County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Goliad County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Harris County, TX, Hays County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Houston County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Jack County, TX, Jackson County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Lee County, TX, Leon County, TX, Liberty County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Llano County, TX, Madison County, TX, Matagorda County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Montague County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Polk County, TX, Rains County, TX, Refugio County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Travis County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Victoria County, TX, Walker County, TX, Waller County, TX, Washington County, TX, Wharton County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wilson County, TX, Wise County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 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
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- 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
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
36 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 2:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Jackson, Wharton | 29 min |
| Apr 16, 2:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Aransas, Refugio | 32 min |
| Apr 16, 2:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Chambers, Liberty | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 3:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Refugio | 114 min |
| Apr 16, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 54 min |
| Apr 16, 3:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Calhoun, Refugio, Victoria | 31 min |
| Apr 16, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Hays | 39 min |
| Apr 16, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Colorado | 32 min |
| Apr 16, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Comal | 54 min |
| Apr 16, 3:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 114 min |
| Apr 16, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Calhoun, Refugio | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Austin, Colorado, Washington | 27 min |
| Apr 16, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Parker | 40 min |
| Apr 16, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Calhoun, Victoria | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Caldwell, Comal, Guadalupe, Hays | 41 min |
| Apr 16, 4:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Liberty | 113 min |
| Apr 16, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston, Madison, Walker | 23 min |
| Apr 16, 4:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Chambers, Harris, Liberty | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Walker | 30 min |
| Apr 16, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Jackson, Matagorda | 41 min |
| Apr 16, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Polk | 22 min |
| Apr 16, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Walker | 28 min |
| Apr 16, 5:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Jackson, Matagorda | 40 min |
| Apr 16, 5:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Chambers, Liberty | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 6:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Grimes, Madison, Montgomery, Walker | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Matagorda | 30 min |
| Apr 16, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette | 31 min |
| Apr 16, 7:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Polk, San Jacinto, Walker | 115 min |
| Apr 16, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Matagorda, Wharton | 39 min |
| Apr 16, 8:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Chambers, Harris, Liberty | 114 min |
| Apr 16, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Fort Bend, Matagorda, Wharton | 46 min |
| Apr 16, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Austin, Colorado, Wharton | 38 min |
| Apr 16, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Austin, Colorado, Fort Bend, Waller, Wharton | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 9:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Chambers, Harris, Liberty | 117 min |
| Apr 16, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Fort Bend | 30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 12:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Crosby, Donley and 15 more | 116 min |
| Apr 16, 1:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Bosque and 48 more | 116 min |
| Apr 16, 1:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hansford and 8 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 16, 2:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Aransas, Austin, Bastrop, Bee, Bell and 75 more | 63 min |
| Apr 16, 4:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Borden, Brown, Callahan, Childress and 46 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 16, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Briscoe, Brown, Callahan, Castro and 45 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 16, 4:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Cherokee, Gregg, Hardin, Houston, Jasper and 12 more | 91 min |
| Apr 16, 5:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hansford and 7 more | 84 min |
| Apr 16, 5:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bailey, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hartley, Oldham, Parmer | 91 min |
| Apr 16, 6:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Aransas, Austin, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar and 84 more | 86 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.