Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2019
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 48
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 13, 2019, 1:32 AM CDT for 27 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 13, 2019, 1:32 AM CDT (06:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 13, 2019, 9:59 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 27 counties
Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Concho County, TX, Crane County, TX, Ector County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jones County, TX, Martin County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Upton County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:33 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
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- 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
- 40%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 2:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett, Irion | 44 min |
| Apr 13, 2:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 57 min |
| Apr 13, 3:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion | 46 min |
| Apr 13, 3:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Reagan | 3 hr |
| Apr 13, 4:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion, Sterling, Tom Green | 33 min |
| Apr 13, 5:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett, Irion, Schleicher, Sterling, Tom Green | 38 min |
| Apr 13, 5:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Irion, Schleicher, Tom Green | 36 min |
| Apr 13, 6:24 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Concho, Tom Green | 36 min |
| Apr 13, 6:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho, Menard, Schleicher, Tom Green | 46 min |
| Apr 13, 6:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho, Runnels, Tom Green | 49 min |
| Apr 13, 7:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho, Menard, Schleicher, Tom Green | 47 min |
| Apr 13, 7:32 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Concho, Menard | 18 min |
| Apr 13, 7:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman, Concho, McCulloch, Runnels | 42 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 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3570 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 10:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chambers, Hardin, Harris, Jasper, Liberty, Montgomery and 5 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 12, 11:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Coke, Crane, Crockett, Ector, Glasscock, Howard and 13 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 13, 12:56 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Crockett, Edwards, Kerr, Kimble, Kinney and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 13, 1:50 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bandera, Crockett, Edwards, Frio, Gillespie, Kendall and 13 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 13, 1:52 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 25 more | 113 min |
| Apr 13, 4:35 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche and 26 more | 55 min |
| Apr 13, 4:50 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Crockett, Edwards, Frio, Gillespie, Kendall and 13 more | 55 min |
| Apr 13, 6:48 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche and 27 more | 57 min |
| Apr 13, 7:11 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Burleson and 28 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 13, 7:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Comanche, Coryell, Dallas and 27 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 13, 8:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 22 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 13, 9:40 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Brazos, Burleson and 19 more | 95 min |
| Apr 13, 9:49 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Freestone, Gregg, Harrison and 12 more | 56 min |
| Apr 13, 10:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Angelina, Austin, Brazos, Burleson, Camp, Cass and 21 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 13, 11:11 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brazos, Grimes, Hardin, Harris, Jasper, Liberty and 10 more | 34 min |
| Apr 13, 11:26 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Brazos, Cherokee, Grimes, Hardin, Harrison and 18 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 13, 11:52 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Brazos, Cherokee, Freestone, Grimes and 12 more | 83 min |
| Apr 13, 1:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Jasper, Nacogdoches, Newton, Sabine, San Augustine and 1 more | 97 min |
| Apr 13, 3:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jefferson, Orange | 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.