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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 134
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 30, 2018, 2:56 PM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 30, 2018, 2:56 PM MDT (20:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2018, 10:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 25 counties
Baca County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Grant County, KS, Gray County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Harding County, NM, Union County, NM, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 192 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:59 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
- 5%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- 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
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 4:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 17 min |
| May 30, 4:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Union | 41 min |
| May 30, 5:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron, Texas | 57 min |
| May 30, 5:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron, Texas | 65 min |
| May 30, 5:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton | 50 min |
| May 30, 6:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron, Texas | 63 min |
| May 30, 6:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Morton, Stevens | 45 min |
| May 30, 7:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 55 min |
| May 30, 7:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver, Texas | 38 min |
| May 30, 7:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver, Texas | 61 min |
| May 30, 8:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron, Texas | 37 min |
| May 30, 8:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver, Texas | 82 min |
| May 30, 8:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron | 49 min |
| May 30, 8:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DDC | Clark, Meade | 33 min |
| May 30, 9:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Cimarron, Texas | 29 min |
| May 30, 9:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Texas | 62 min |
| May 30, 9:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill, Lipscomb | 54 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 30, 1:25 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Arapahoe, Baca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley and 14 more | 2 hr |
| May 30, 4:23 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln | 3 hr |
| May 30, 5:22 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baca | 113 min |
| May 29, 8:03 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Butler, Chase, Clay, Dickinson, Geary and 17 more | 57 min |
| May 29, 9:58 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford, Elk and 6 more | 92 min |
| May 29, 8:10 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland and 18 more | 2 hr |
| May 29, 8:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 32 more | 6 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.