Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2017
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 259
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 23, 2017, 3:33 PM CDT for 57 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 2017, 3:33 PM CDT (20:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2017, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 57 counties
Anderson County, TX, Angelina County, TX, Atascosa County, TX, Austin County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bell County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Brazoria County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Chambers County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Colorado County, TX, Comal County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Falls County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Fort Bend County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Galveston County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Harris County, TX, Hays County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Houston County, TX, Jackson County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Lee County, TX, Leon County, TX, Liberty County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Madison County, TX, Matagorda County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Polk County, TX, Robertson County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, Smith County, TX, Travis County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Walker County, TX, Waller County, TX, Washington County, TX, Wharton County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wilson County, TX, Wood County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:36 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
- 50%
- 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
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
21 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 35 min |
| May 23, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston | 33 min |
| May 23, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Wilson | 44 min |
| May 23, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston, Trinity | 29 min |
| May 23, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Lee, Travis, Williamson | 41 min |
| May 23, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bexar | 33 min |
| May 23, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Fayette, Lee | 53 min |
| May 23, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bexar, Wilson | 35 min |
| May 23, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, Travis | 49 min |
| May 23, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Austin, Colorado, Washington | 45 min |
| May 23, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Austin, Colorado, Waller, Washington | 32 min |
| May 23, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa | 17 min |
| May 23, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Austin, Colorado, Fort Bend, Harris, Waller, Wharton | 35 min |
| May 23, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Polk, San Jacinto | 34 min |
| May 23, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Austin, Brazoria, Colorado, Fort Bend, Harris, Matagorda and 2 more | 31 min |
| May 23, 7:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Austin, Fort Bend | 27 min |
| May 23, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Fort Bend, Galveston, Matagorda, Wharton | 33 min |
| May 23, 7:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris | 22 min |
| May 23, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 25 min |
| May 23, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris | 23 min |
| May 23, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Chambers, Galveston, Harris, Matagorda | 36 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Callahan, Cochran, Coke, Crane and 40 more | 6 hr |
| May 22, 8:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Foard, Hardeman and 10 more | 2 hr |
| May 23, 2:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Brazos and 27 more | 116 min |
| May 23, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Duval, Goliad, Jim Wells and 9 more | 3 hr |
| May 23, 6:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aransas, Austin, Bee, Calhoun, Colorado, DeWitt and 17 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.