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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 106
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 1, 2017, 3:23 PM CDT for 18 counties in Texas. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 1, 2017, 3:23 PM CDT (20:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2017, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Concho County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Jones County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:27 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
- 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
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher, Nolan | 50 min |
| Apr 1, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher, Nolan | 38 min |
| Apr 1, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Runnels | 49 min |
| Apr 1, 6:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Runnels | 92 min |
| Apr 1, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Runnels | 30 min |
| Apr 1, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman, Runnels | 44 min |
| Apr 1, 7:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Coleman, Runnels | 119 min |
| Apr 1, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman, Runnels | 40 min |
| Apr 1, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Coleman | 30 min |
| Apr 1, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Coleman | 32 min |
| Apr 1, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Runnels, Tom Green | 45 min |
| Apr 1, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown, Coleman | 46 min |
| Apr 1, 9:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Brown, Coleman | 2 hr |
| Apr 1, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown, Coleman | 47 min |
| Apr 1, 10:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown | 27 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 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 2624 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 11:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Carson, Donley, Gray, Hansford, Hemphill and 8 more | 83 min |
| Apr 1, 2:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Clay, Coke and 21 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 1, 5:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett and 17 more | 96 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.