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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 415
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Oct 14, 2018, 7:07 PM CDT for 18 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 14, 2018, 7:07 PM CDT (00:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 15, 2018, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Bosque County, TX, Camp County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Morris County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Rains County, TX, Smith County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Titus County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wood County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:10 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
- 10%
- 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
- 40%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque, Hill | 41 min |
| Oct 14, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis | 64 min |
| Oct 14, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Camp, Upshur, Wood | 40 min |
| Oct 14, 8:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Upshur, Wood | 39 min |
| Oct 14, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 29 min |
| Oct 14, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Smith | 44 min |
| Oct 14, 9:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Upshur | 33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 9:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Camp, Gregg, Henderson, Navarro, Smith, Upshur and 2 more | 85 min |
| Oct 14, 10:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Blanco, Burnet, Edwards, Gillespie, Kendall and 15 more | 3 hr |
| Oct 14, 11:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Camp, Gregg, Morris, Smith, Upshur | 30 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.