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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 320
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 3, 2016, 6:27 PM CDT for 20 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 2016, 6:27 PM CDT (23:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2016, 12:42 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Clay County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Jack County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Montague County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:26 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
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 50%
Warnings issued inside it
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Clay | 23 min |
| Jul 3, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Jones | 48 min |
| Jul 3, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Clay, Wichita | 45 min |
| Jul 3, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Clay | 39 min |
| Jul 3, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 40 min |
| Jul 3, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Clay | 33 min |
| Jul 3, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Clay | 45 min |
| Jul 3, 8:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 54 min |
| Jul 3, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Young | 56 min |
| Jul 3, 10:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Young | 65 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
Norman, OK (KOUN), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 262 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
- 1279 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 859 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 9.8
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 9:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Beaver, Grant, Harper, Texas, Woods and 1 more | 85 min |
| Jul 3, 2:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Cherokee, Cleveland, Coal, Creek, Garvin and 24 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 3, 2:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cimarron | 119 min |
| Jul 3, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 45 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 3, 5:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Clay, Jack, Montague, Shackelford, Throckmorton and 1 more | 3 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.