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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 221
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 26, 2016, 10:17 PM CDT for 15 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2016, 10:17 PM CDT (03:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2016, 3:52 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Bandera County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Comal County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Hays County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Lee County, TX, Llano County, TX, Travis County, TX, Williamson County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:17 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
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis | 47 min |
| May 26, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Burnet, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr, Llano | 52 min |
| May 26, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis | 49 min |
| May 27, 12:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Blanco, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr | 4 hr |
| May 27, 12:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Gillespie, Kendall | 57 min |
| May 27, 12:47 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 28 min |
| May 27, 1:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Hays, Travis, Williamson | 3 hr |
| May 27, 1:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell, Fayette, Lee | 15 hr |
| May 27, 1:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Lee | 59 min |
| May 27, 1:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell, Fayette, Gonzales | 53 min |
| May 27, 2:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Fayette | 63 min |
| May 27, 3:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Hays, Travis | 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bosque, Comanche, Dallas, Eastland, Ellis, Erath and 12 more | 5 hr |
| May 26, 7:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Foard, Hardeman, Wichita, Wilbarger | 59 min |
| May 26, 9:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Bandera, Baylor, Brown, Burnet, Callahan and 47 more | 61 min |
| May 26, 10:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Caldwell, Comal, Fayette and 6 more | 56 min |
| May 26, 11:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Coryell, Dallas, Ellis, Hill, McLennan | 84 min |
| May 27, 1:30 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Concho, Eastland and 9 more | 60 min |
| May 27, 2:14 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Chambers, Colorado, Fayette, Fort Bend, Harris and 4 more | 61 min |
| May 27, 2:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend, Galveston and 16 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 5:50 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chambers, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange and 1 more | 25 min |
| May 27, 12:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Austin, Bastrop, Brazoria, Caldwell, Chambers and 28 more | 63 min |
| May 27, 2:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chambers, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty, Newton and 3 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 4:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Bee, Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, Colorado and 27 more | 117 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.