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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 482
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Sep 17, 2016, 10:02 PM CDT for 11 counties in Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 17, 2016, 10:02 PM CDT (03:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 18, 2016, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Crane County, TX, Ector County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Loving County, TX, Midland County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Ector, Midland, Upton | 61 min |
| Sep 18, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan, Upton | 45 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 2085 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1172 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 310 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.1
- Supercell composite
- 7.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 7:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Dawson, Ector, Gaines, Glasscock and 6 more | 85 min |
| Sep 17, 7:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Carson, Castro, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith and 16 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 17, 10:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hemphill and 3 more | 58 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.