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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 78
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 10, 2016, 3:31 PM CDT for 4 counties in Oklahoma; 42 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 10, 2016, 3:31 PM CDT (20:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 10, 2016, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 46 counties
Beckham County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Borden County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Foard County, TX, Garza County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wheeler County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:34 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
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 40%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
35 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock, Lynn | 52 min |
| Apr 10, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Foard, Hardeman | 60 min |
| Apr 10, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, King | 27 min |
| Apr 10, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Foard, Knox | 52 min |
| Apr 10, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Lubbock | 46 min |
| Apr 10, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 27 min |
| Apr 10, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson | 37 min |
| Apr 10, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Foard, Wilbarger | 50 min |
| Apr 10, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens | 46 min |
| Apr 10, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Wilbarger | 39 min |
| Apr 10, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 50 min |
| Apr 10, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Swisher | 31 min |
| Apr 10, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd, Hale, Swisher | 33 min |
| Apr 10, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, King | 30 min |
| Apr 10, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Lamb | 35 min |
| Apr 10, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Floyd, Swisher | 31 min |
| Apr 10, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 31 min |
| Apr 10, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Hale, Lamb, Swisher | 33 min |
| Apr 10, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Foard, Knox | 46 min |
| Apr 10, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Donley | 35 min |
| Apr 10, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Floyd, Hall | 34 min |
| Apr 10, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 29 min |
| Apr 10, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson | 18 min |
| Apr 10, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Swisher | 35 min |
| Apr 10, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham, Greer, Kiowa, Washita | 44 min |
| Apr 10, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor, Foard, Knox, Wilbarger | 53 min |
| Apr 10, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth | 45 min |
| Apr 10, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall, Motley | 35 min |
| Apr 10, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham, Greer, Harmon | 39 min |
| Apr 10, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Cottle, Hall, Motley | 33 min |
| Apr 10, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Baylor, Wichita, Wilbarger | 43 min |
| Apr 10, 9:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Potter, Randall | 42 min |
| Apr 10, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman | 40 min |
| Apr 10, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Baylor, Wichita, Wilbarger | 46 min |
| Apr 10, 9:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson | 23 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2830 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 2:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Harmon | 2 hr |
| Apr 10, 4:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Comanche, Cotton and 24 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 10, 5:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Craig, Mayes, Nowata, Osage, Ottawa, Rogers and 2 more | 92 min |
| Apr 10, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 27 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 10, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Craig, Nowata, Osage, Ottawa, Pawnee, Washington | 6 hr |
| Apr 10, 6:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greer, Harmon, Jackson | 93 min |
| Apr 10, 5:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dimmit, Edwards, Kinney, Maverick, Real, Terrell and 3 more | 67 min |
| Apr 10, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bandera, Dimmit, Edwards, Frio, Kerr, Kinney and 8 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2016Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2016
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.