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Tornado Watch 212

May 25, 201514 counties in Arkansas; 13 counties in Oklahoma; 59 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 25, 2015, 2:52 PM CDT for 14 counties in Arkansas; 13 counties in Oklahoma; 59 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 25, 2015, 2:52 PM CDT (19:52 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2015, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 86 counties

Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Howard County, AR, Little River County, AR, Logan County, AR, Madison County, AR, Miller County, AR, Polk County, AR, Scott County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Washington County, AR, Adair County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, McCurtain County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Anderson County, TX, Angelina County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Bowie County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Comal County, TX, Delta County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Hays County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Houston County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Lee County, TX, Leon County, TX, Madison County, TX, Marion County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Morris County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Panola County, TX, Polk County, TX, Rains County, TX, Red River County, TX, Rusk County, TX, San Augustine County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, Shelby County, TX, Smith County, TX, Titus County, TX, Travis County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Walker County, TX, Washington County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wilson County, TX, Wood County, TX

The radar

The Shreveport radar (KSHV), 179 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 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: 50%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 20%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 70%
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: 30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 90%

Warnings issued inside it

132 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 3:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Travis	29 min
May 25, 3:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Caldwell, Comal, Guadalupe, Hays, Lee and 2 more	3 hr
May 25, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Williamson	33 min
May 25, 3:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Travis, Williamson	52 min
May 25, 3:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone, Limestone	52 min
May 25, 3:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Crawford	8 hr
May 25, 3:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Freestone	36 min
May 25, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	65 min
May 25, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Ellis, Henderson, Kaufman, Navarro	64 min
May 25, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Delta, Fannin, Hopkins, Hunt, Lamar, Rains	75 min
May 25, 4:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Emergency	EWX	Travis, Williamson	3 hr
May 25, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	McIntosh, Pittsburg	23 min
May 25, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Rains, Van Zandt	79 min
May 25, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Caldwell	46 min
May 25, 4:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Freestone, Limestone, Navarro	3 hr
May 25, 4:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pittsburg	42 min
May 25, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Pushmataha	39 min
May 25, 4:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Travis	24 min
May 25, 4:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Pushmataha	34 min
May 25, 4:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Collin, Fannin, Hunt	3 hr
May 25, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha	45 min
May 25, 4:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Freestone, Navarro	28 min
May 25, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Choctaw, Pushmataha	31 min
May 25, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone, Limestone	65 min
May 25, 4:42 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Henderson, Rains, Van Zandt	5 hr
May 25, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Leon, Robertson	77 min
May 25, 4:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Bastrop	30 min
May 25, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	McCurtain	44 min
May 25, 4:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	LeFlore, Pushmataha	27 min
May 25, 4:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Emergency	EWX	Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Lee, Travis, Williamson	3 hr
May 25, 4:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Delta, Hopkins, Lamar	5 hr
May 25, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazos, Houston, Madison	84 min
May 25, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg, Pushmataha	38 min
May 25, 4:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Considerable damage threat	TSA	Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha	38 min
May 25, 4:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	McCurtain	8 hr
May 25, 4:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Henderson, Navarro	31 min
May 25, 5:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Latimer, LeFlore, Pushmataha	29 min
May 25, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Polk	37 min
May 25, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	McCurtain	37 min
May 25, 5:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	TSA	Latimer, LeFlore	52 min
May 25, 5:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Howard	23 min
May 25, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	McCurtain	46 min
May 25, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Caldwell, Lee	46 min
May 25, 5:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Camp, Franklin, Morris, Smith, Titus, Upshur and 1 more	4 hr
May 25, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson	73 min
May 25, 5:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	LeFlore	41 min
May 25, 5:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TSA	Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more	8 hr
May 25, 5:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Anderson, Leon	5 hr
May 25, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Madison	39 min
May 25, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Muskogee, Pushmataha, Sequoyah	52 min
May 25, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Little River	62 min
May 25, 5:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore	32 min
May 25, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Montgomery, Polk, Scott	59 min
May 25, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Adair, Cherokee, McIntosh, Muskogee, Sequoyah, Wagoner	41 min
May 25, 5:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Haskell, LeFlore	49 min
May 25, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson	49 min
May 25, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Sevier	63 min
May 25, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Johnson, Logan, Yell	46 min
May 25, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian	55 min
May 25, 5:53 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Howard, Little River, Sevier	4 hr
May 25, 5:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Polk	36 min
May 25, 5:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HGX	Brazos, Burleson	3 hr
May 25, 5:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	LeFlore	19 min
May 25, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazos, Grimes, Madison, Montgomery, Walker	48 min
May 25, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Caldwell, Fayette, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Lee and 1 more	45 min
May 25, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Smith	55 min
May 25, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazos, Burleson, Washington	39 min
May 25, 6:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Anderson	23 min
May 25, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Smith	67 min
May 25, 6:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Logan, Scott	36 min
May 25, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Houston	34 min
May 25, 6:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Smith	48 min
May 25, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Logan, Montgomery, Pike, Scott, Yell	58 min
May 25, 6:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Caldwell, Fayette, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Karnes and 2 more	6 hr
May 25, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazos, Burleson	27 min
May 25, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Columbia, Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller and 2 more	55 min
May 25, 6:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	EWX	Fayette	23 min
May 25, 6:28 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HGX	Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Houston, Madison, Walker	3 hr
May 25, 6:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HGX	Brazos, Grimes	32 min
May 25, 6:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Gonzales, Guadalupe, Wilson	42 min
May 25, 6:34 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Cherokee, Gregg, Rusk	4 hr
May 25, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Angelina, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Nacogdoches, Panola and 5 more	54 min
May 25, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian	50 min
May 25, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Houston, Madison	34 min
May 25, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Montgomery, Walker, Washington	63 min
May 25, 6:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Logan, Yell	30 min
May 25, 6:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Fayette	28 min
May 25, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bastrop, Caldwell, Fayette, Gonzales, Lavaca	42 min
May 25, 6:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HGX	Austin, Colorado, Washington	24 min
May 25, 6:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Gregg, Harrison, Rusk, Smith, Upshur	39 min
May 25, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Houston, Polk, Trinity	23 min
May 25, 6:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Gonzales, Wilson	37 min
May 25, 7:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Miller, Nevada	4 hr
May 25, 7:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Gregg, Harrison, Panola, Rusk	56 min
May 25, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	Conway, Garland, Johnson, Logan, Montgomery, Perry and 3 more	55 min
May 25, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Washington	51 min
May 25, 7:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HGX	Austin, Brazos, Burleson, Colorado, Grimes, Waller and 1 more	6 hr
May 25, 7:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HGX	Grimes, Houston, Madison, Montgomery, Polk, San Jacinto and 2 more	3 hr
May 25, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Austin, Colorado, Waller, Washington	49 min
May 25, 7:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Fayette	10 min
May 25, 7:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Clark, Garland, Hot Spring, Logan, Montgomery, Perry and 5 more	6 hr
May 25, 7:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Gonzales, Karnes, Wilson	24 min
May 25, 7:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Harrison, Marion, Panola	4 hr
May 25, 7:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	Angelina, Nacogdoches, San Augustine, Shelby	4 hr
May 25, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Angelina, Cass, Gregg, Harrison, Marion, Nacogdoches and 6 more	63 min
May 25, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Franklin, Madison	47 min
May 25, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Polk, San Jacinto, Trinity, Walker	47 min
May 25, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	DeWitt, Fayette, Gonzales, Karnes, Lavaca, Wilson	60 min
May 25, 7:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Harrison, Panola	39 min
May 25, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Austin, Grimes, Harris, Montgomery, Walker, Waller and 1 more	62 min
May 25, 7:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HGX	Grimes, Harris, Montgomery, Walker, Waller	25 min
May 25, 7:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Emergency	EWX	Bastrop, Caldwell, Lee, Travis, Williamson	4 hr
May 25, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TSA	Benton, Madison, Washington	29 min
May 25, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Austin, Colorado, Waller, Washington	47 min
May 25, 8:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	DeWitt, Karnes	35 min
May 25, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Liberty, Montgomery, Polk, San Jacinto, Trinity	35 min
May 25, 8:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HGX	Montgomery, Polk, San Jacinto, Walker	3 hr
May 25, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Angelina, Nacogdoches, Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby	60 min
May 25, 8:31 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HGX	Harris, Montgomery, San Jacinto, Walker	3 hr
May 25, 8:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	DeWitt, Gonzales, Lavaca	55 min
May 25, 8:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HGX	Austin, Colorado, Grimes, Harris, Montgomery, Waller	3 hr
May 25, 8:36 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	DeWitt, Karnes, Lavaca	3 hr
May 25, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Fort Bend, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery, San Jacinto, Waller	64 min
May 25, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Polk	28 min
May 25, 8:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HGX	Brazoria, Fort Bend, Harris, Montgomery, San Jacinto	3 hr
May 25, 9:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	DeWitt, Karnes	42 min
May 25, 9:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Austin, Colorado, Fort Bend, Waller, Washington, Wharton	51 min
May 25, 9:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HGX	Chambers, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery, Polk, San Jacinto	3 hr
May 25, 9:13 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	Boone, Conway, Faulkner, Johnson, Logan, Marion and 5 more	6 hr
May 25, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	DeWitt, Karnes	56 min
May 25, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	DeWitt, Lavaca	48 min
May 25, 9:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SHV	McCurtain	16 hr

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 172 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1630 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 663 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 164 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 7.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 8:41 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Mississippi	64 min
May 25, 2:35 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Little River, Polk, Sevier	55 min
May 25, 5:15 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arkansas, Ashley, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark and 48 more	90 min
May 25, 5:51 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Arkansas, Baxter, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark and 40 more	6 hr
May 24, 7:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beaver, Ellis, Texas	93 min
May 24, 8:24 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Beaver, Ellis, Harper, Texas, Woodward	5 hr
May 25, 10:13 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Comanche and 10 more	2 hr
May 25, 10:54 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 21 more	7 hr
May 25, 12:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Creek and 26 more	83 min
May 25, 1:54 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Carter, Cleveland, Cotton, Garvin, Grady, Jefferson and 8 more	2 hr
May 25, 3:17 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bandera, Coke, Crane, Crockett, Ector, Edwards and 21 more	4 hr
May 25, 6:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 34 more	6 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, 11:37 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 26 more	113 min
May 25, 2:10 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Austin, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Brazos, Burleson and 26 more	95 min
May 25, 3:19 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Dimmit, Edwards, Frio and 9 more	56 min
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

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.