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Tornado Watch 222
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 26, 2015, 2:53 PM CDT for 4 counties in Oklahoma; 28 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2015, 2:53 PM CDT (19:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2015, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 32 counties
Cotton County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Clay County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Foard County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Hood County, TX, Jack County, TX, Jones County, TX, Knox County, TX, Montague County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 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
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- 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
41 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 60 min |
| May 26, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 55 min |
| May 26, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 65 min |
| May 26, 3:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Stephens | 33 min |
| May 26, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer | 50 min |
| May 26, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Stephens, Young | 61 min |
| May 26, 4:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Stephens, Young | 3 hr |
| May 26, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Tillman | 42 min |
| May 26, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman | 42 min |
| May 26, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Clay | 51 min |
| May 26, 4:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Stephens | 31 min |
| May 26, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 46 min |
| May 26, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche, Cotton, Tillman | 48 min |
| May 26, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Stephens | 63 min |
| May 26, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Clay, Wichita | 29 min |
| May 26, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Stephens | 36 min |
| May 26, 5:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 3 hr |
| May 26, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cotton, Jefferson, Tillman | 48 min |
| May 26, 5:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 46 min |
| May 26, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Baylor | 46 min |
| May 26, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Stephens | 53 min |
| May 26, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cotton, Jefferson, Stephens | 51 min |
| May 26, 6:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Erath, Palo Pinto | 46 min |
| May 26, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath, Palo Pinto | 54 min |
| May 26, 7:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Stephens | 3 hr |
| May 26, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland, Stephens | 67 min |
| May 26, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 62 min |
| May 26, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Erath | 31 min |
| May 26, 7:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Eastland | 42 min |
| May 26, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Jefferson | 21 min |
| May 26, 8:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Eastland, Erath | 3 hr |
| May 26, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Shackelford | 40 min |
| May 26, 8:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto, Stephens | 3 hr |
| May 26, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Taylor | 44 min |
| May 26, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Shackelford | 49 min |
| May 26, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 62 min |
| May 26, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 66 min |
| May 26, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hood, Somervell | 58 min |
| May 26, 9:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Comanche, Eastland, Erath | 5 hr |
| May 26, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Parker | 51 min |
| May 26, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Erath | 62 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
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 1151 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 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 26, 1:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caddo, Carter, Comanche, Cotton, Grady, Greer and 6 more | 85 min |
| May 26, 3:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Craig, Creek, Delaware, Kay, Lincoln, Mayes and 10 more | 53 min |
| May 26, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 22 more | 7 hr |
| May 26, 5:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cotton, Jefferson, Tillman | 93 min |
| May 25, 8:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, DeWitt and 22 more | 85 min |
| May 25, 11:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Bastrop, Bee, Brazoria, Caldwell, Calhoun and 26 more | 92 min |
| May 26, 3:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Coke, Crockett, Irion, Reagan, Schleicher, Sterling and 4 more | 66 min |
| May 26, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett, Glasscock and 14 more | 4 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.