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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 40
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 7, 2019, 1:55 AM CDT for 38 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 7, 2019, 1:55 AM CDT (06:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 7, 2019, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 38 counties
Aransas County, TX, Atascosa County, TX, Bee County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Brooks County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Cameron County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Dimmit County, TX, Duval County, TX, Frio County, TX, Goliad County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hidalgo County, TX, Jim Hogg County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Kenedy County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, La Salle County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, Maverick County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Medina County, TX, Nueces County, TX, Refugio County, TX, San Patricio County, TX, Starr County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Victoria County, TX, Webb County, TX, Willacy County, TX, Wilson County, TX, Zapata County, TX, Zavala County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:55 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
- 40%
- 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
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
19 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 2:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 47 min |
| Apr 7, 3:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Maverick | 3 hr |
| Apr 7, 3:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kinney, Maverick, Uvalde, Zavala | 63 min |
| Apr 7, 4:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle, McMullen | 51 min |
| Apr 7, 4:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Edwards, Kinney, Medina, Real, Uvalde | 58 min |
| Apr 7, 4:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Live Oak, McMullen | 48 min |
| Apr 7, 5:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bexar, Wilson | 38 min |
| Apr 7, 5:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Frio, Kerr, Medina and 1 more | 51 min |
| Apr 7, 5:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Live Oak, McMullen | 2 hr |
| Apr 7, 6:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Comal, Guadalupe, Kendall and 2 more | 67 min |
| Apr 7, 6:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Starr, Zapata | 56 min |
| Apr 7, 6:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee, Duval, Jim Wells, Kleberg, Live Oak, Nueces and 1 more | 39 min |
| Apr 7, 7:01 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Bee, Live Oak | 29 min |
| Apr 7, 7:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Brooks, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Starr | 58 min |
| Apr 7, 7:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee, Goliad, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio | 48 min |
| Apr 7, 7:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Hidalgo, Starr | 63 min |
| Apr 7, 8:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Goliad, Nueces, Refugio and 2 more | 45 min |
| Apr 7, 8:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 37 min |
| Apr 7, 8:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Goliad, Victoria | 50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 7:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Houston, Lee and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 7, 1:00 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aransas, Atascosa, Bee, Bexar, DeWitt, Dimmit and 19 more | 90 min |
| Apr 7, 5:29 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Gregg and 12 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 7, 6:41 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aransas, Atascosa, Austin, Bastrop, Bee, Bexar and 38 more | 94 min |
| Apr 7, 7:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers, Colorado and 17 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 7, 11:13 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Brazoria, Calhoun, Colorado, Fort Bend, Galveston and 13 more | 92 min |
| Apr 7, 12:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Nacogdoches, Newton and 7 more | 93 min |
| Apr 7, 1:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 20 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 7, 2:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Chambers, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Nacogdoches and 7 more | 86 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.