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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 76
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 18, 2015, 5:46 PM CDT for 26 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 18, 2015, 5:46 PM CDT (22:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 18, 2015, 10:19 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 26 counties
Anderson County, TX, Bell County, TX, Collin County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Denton County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Falls County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Rains County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:48 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
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 70%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson, Tarrant | 52 min |
| Apr 18, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Ellis, Johnson, Tarrant | 61 min |
| Apr 18, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 59 min |
| Apr 18, 7:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Denton | 3 hr |
| Apr 18, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin | 63 min |
| Apr 18, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Navarro | 56 min |
| Apr 18, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman, Rockwall | 53 min |
| Apr 18, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson | 55 min |
| Apr 18, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman, Van Zandt | 58 min |
| Apr 18, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson | 49 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 17, 7:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carson, Hansford, Hutchinson, Ochiltree, Roberts | 2 hr |
| Apr 17, 7:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chambers, Galveston, Jefferson | 96 min |
| Apr 17, 9:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aransas, Brooks, Calhoun, Duval, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg and 7 more | 95 min |
| Apr 17, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Hardin, Harris and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 17, 10:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aransas, Brooks, Hidalgo, Kenedy, Kleberg, Nueces | 91 min |
| Apr 17, 11:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chambers, Galveston, Jefferson, Orange | 59 min |
| Apr 18, 1:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Clay, Coleman and 23 more | 113 min |
| Apr 18, 2:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Bosque, Brown and 58 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 18, 2:27 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Childress, Clay, Collingsworth, Cottle and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 18, 4:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Bastrop, Bexar, Caldwell, Comal, Dimmit and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 18, 4:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hidalgo, Kenedy, Kleberg, Willacy | 2 hr |
| Apr 18, 5:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Collin, Dallas, Ellis, Falls, Hill, Kaufman and 6 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 18, 6:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baylor, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Foard, Hardeman and 3 more | 87 min |
| Apr 18, 6:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet and 48 more | 95 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.