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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 233
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 30, 2016, 6:54 PM CDT for 21 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 30, 2016, 6:54 PM CDT (23:54 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2016, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 21 counties
Borden County, TX, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Howard County, TX, Jones County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:53 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
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 10%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 40%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 29 min |
| May 30, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Mitchell, Scurry | 63 min |
| May 30, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 60 min |
| May 30, 8:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Midland | 3 hr |
| May 30, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 63 min |
| May 30, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Midland | 60 min |
| May 30, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Dawson, Martin | 57 min |
| May 30, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Dawson, Gaines, Martin | 63 min |
| May 30, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Ector, Martin, Midland | 34 min |
| May 30, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector, Glasscock, Midland | 46 min |
| May 30, 11:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard, Martin | 31 min |
| May 30, 11:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector, Midland | 30 min |
| May 30, 11:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector, Midland | 3 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 931 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -299 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 796 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 7:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Brewster, Crane, Crockett, Dawson and 22 more | 85 min |
| May 29, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 35 more | 9 hr |
| May 29, 9:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 28 more | 2 hr |
| May 29, 11:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 18 more | 83 min |
| May 30, 9:41 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jackson, Lavaca, Victoria | 64 min |
| May 30, 2:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Brewster, Crane, Crockett, Culberson, Ector and 12 more | 2 hr |
| May 30, 5:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Borden, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche and 15 more | 2 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.