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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 217
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 26, 2016, 3:12 PM CDT for 27 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2016, 3:12 PM CDT (20:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2016, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 27 counties
Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Concho County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Kinney County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Real County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Val Verde County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 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
- 50%
- 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
- 50%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
26 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion, Sterling, Tom Green | 47 min |
| May 26, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett, Irion, Schleicher | 44 min |
| May 26, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Sterling, Tom Green | 50 min |
| May 26, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 50 min |
| May 26, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 42 min |
| May 26, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion, Schleicher, Tom Green | 45 min |
| May 26, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Irion, Sterling, Tom Green | 45 min |
| May 26, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 50 min |
| May 26, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Jones, Shackelford, Taylor | 46 min |
| May 26, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 26 min |
| May 26, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Runnels | 39 min |
| May 26, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho, Runnels, Tom Green | 46 min |
| May 26, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Shackelford | 52 min |
| May 26, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman, Runnels, Taylor | 49 min |
| May 26, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 45 min |
| May 26, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Nolan, Runnels, Taylor | 26 min |
| May 26, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Coleman, Runnels | 31 min |
| May 26, 7:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Callahan, Shackelford | 44 min |
| May 26, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman, Runnels | 43 min |
| May 26, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman, Concho, Runnels | 25 min |
| May 26, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney, Real, Val Verde | 49 min |
| May 26, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown | 51 min |
| May 26, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Brown, Callahan, Coleman | 31 min |
| May 26, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Brown, Callahan, Coleman | 30 min |
| May 26, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown | 47 min |
| May 26, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Edwards, Gillespie, Kerr, Real | 52 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 8:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brewster, Crockett, Edwards, Irion, Kinney, Pecos and 5 more | 83 min |
| May 26, 12:54 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Coleman, Concho, Crockett, Edwards, Irion, Kimble and 8 more | 36 min |
| May 26, 7:35 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bosque, Coryell, Hamilton, Hill, Limestone, McLennan and 1 more | 115 min |
| May 26, 1:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Childress, Collingsworth, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Wheeler | 2 hr |
| May 26, 1:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Foard, Hardeman, Knox, Wichita and 1 more | 10 hr |
| May 26, 1:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Austin, Bastrop, Bexar, Brazos, Burleson and 29 more | 115 min |
| May 26, 2:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett, Edwards and 22 more | 2 hr |
| May 26, 3:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Donley, Gray, Hall and 6 more | 60 min |
| May 26, 6:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Colorado, Fayette, Fort Bend, Harris, Montgomery and 2 more | 95 min |
| May 26, 6:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett and 21 more | 67 min |
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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.