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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 97
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 23, 2019, 10:42 PM CDT for 38 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 23, 2019, 10:42 PM CDT (03:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2019, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 38 counties
Bosque County, TX, Brewster County, TX, Brown County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Concho County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Irion County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, Mills County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Rains County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Upton County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:43 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
- 20%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 50%
Warnings issued inside it
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan, Upton | 66 min |
| Apr 23, 10:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Collin, Dallas, Denton | 3 hr |
| Apr 23, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 39 min |
| Apr 23, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 30 min |
| Apr 24, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 60 min |
| Apr 24, 12:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown, Coleman | 42 min |
| Apr 24, 12:17 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Brown, Coleman | 3 hr |
| Apr 24, 12:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett, Irion | 50 min |
| Apr 24, 12:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown, Coleman | 51 min |
| Apr 24, 1:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Hamilton, Mills | 64 min |
| Apr 24, 2:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coryell, Hamilton | 59 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 23, 7:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brewster, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Loving, Presidio, Reeves and 2 more | 47 min |
| Apr 23, 8:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Crane and 23 more | 55 min |
| Apr 23, 10:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Blanco, Bosque, Brewster, Brown, Burnet and 49 more | 54 min |
| Apr 23, 11:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Irion, Reagan, Tom Green | 85 min |
| Apr 24, 2:16 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bosque, Brewster, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 27 more | 89 min |
| Apr 24, 10:11 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Austin, Bandera, Bastrop, Bee, Bell and 60 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 24, 11:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet and 25 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 24, 2:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Austin, Bandera, Bastrop, Bee, Bell and 39 more | 89 min |
| Apr 24, 3:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson, Cherokee and 19 more | 43 min |
| Apr 24, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Austin, Brazos, Burleson, Colorado, Grimes, Houston and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 24, 5:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Duval, Goliad, Jackson and 9 more | 67 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.