Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches in 2015
Tornado Watch 518
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Oct 22, 2015, 1:06 AM CDT for 38 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 22, 2015, 1:06 AM CDT (06:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 22, 2015, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 38 counties
Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Brewster County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Childress County, TX, Coke County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Ector County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Kent County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Motley County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Presidio County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Terry County, TX, Upton County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 4 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:08 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
- 30%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 20%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 5%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 10%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 40%
Warnings issued inside it
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 22, 1:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews, Dawson, Ector, Gaines, Martin, Midland | 3 hr |
| Oct 22, 3:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Borden, Dawson, Howard, Martin, Scurry | 3 hr |
| Oct 22, 4:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Midland | 2 hr |
| Oct 22, 5:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector, Midland | 7 hr |
| Oct 22, 5:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Mitchell, Scurry | 7 hr |
| Oct 22, 5:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Reagan, Upton | 7 hr |
| Oct 22, 6:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Midland | 6 hr |
| Oct 22, 7:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Sterling | 3 hr |
| Oct 22, 8:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Fisher, Haskell, Jones, Nolan | 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 21, 8:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Cochran, Dawson, Ector, Gaines, Loving and 7 more | 87 min |
| Oct 21, 11:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 11 more | 59 min |
| Oct 22, 3:51 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baylor, Childress, Coke, Collingsworth, Cottle, Crockett and 22 more | 99 min |
| Oct 22, 1:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brewster, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett and 15 more | 2 hr |
| Oct 22, 5:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Concho, Crockett, Edwards, Kimble, Menard, Schleicher and 3 more | 58 min |
| Oct 22, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Concho, Crockett, Edwards, Irion, Kimble, Menard and 4 more | 3 hr |
Nearby
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.