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Tornado Watch 145
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 7, 2019, 3:00 PM CDT for 49 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 2019, 3:00 PM CDT (20:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2019, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 49 counties
Andrews County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Borden County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Coke County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Ector County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Motley County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Terry County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:03 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
- 50%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 40%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 70%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 70%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
52 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 46 min |
| May 7, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Hale, Lamb, Swisher | 66 min |
| May 7, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos, Ward | 45 min |
| May 7, 4:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Castro, Hale, Swisher | 37 min |
| May 7, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Ector, Ward, Winkler | 51 min |
| May 7, 4:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 50 min |
| May 7, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 48 min |
| May 7, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock, Terry | 35 min |
| May 7, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Castro, Swisher | 30 min |
| May 7, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 44 min |
| May 7, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Swisher | 54 min |
| May 7, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines, Winkler | 39 min |
| May 7, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector, Ward, Winkler | 53 min |
| May 7, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn, Terry | 37 min |
| May 7, 5:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 51 min |
| May 7, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock | 35 min |
| May 7, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson, Gaines | 49 min |
| May 7, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry | 25 min |
| May 7, 5:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Swisher | 33 min |
| May 7, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Ector, Winkler | 33 min |
| May 7, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock, Terry | 31 min |
| May 7, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn, Terry | 18 min |
| May 7, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 30 min |
| May 7, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 59 min |
| May 7, 5:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 50 min |
| May 7, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Swisher | 48 min |
| May 7, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson, Gaines | 34 min |
| May 7, 6:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Castro, Swisher | 2 hr |
| May 7, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 38 min |
| May 7, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 18 min |
| May 7, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 47 min |
| May 7, 6:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Crane, Pecos, Upton | 40 min |
| May 7, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Lubbock | 36 min |
| May 7, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Upton | 66 min |
| May 7, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Terry | 32 min |
| May 7, 6:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 47 min |
| May 7, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran | 30 min |
| May 7, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 60 min |
| May 7, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock | 35 min |
| May 7, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb | 33 min |
| May 7, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 49 min |
| May 7, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lamb | 51 min |
| May 7, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 59 min |
| May 7, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 44 min |
| May 7, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress, Cottle, Hall | 41 min |
| May 7, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress | 31 min |
| May 7, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan, Upton | 64 min |
| May 7, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 33 min |
| May 7, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion, Sterling, Tom Green | 43 min |
| May 7, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 63 min |
| May 7, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Irion, Sterling, Tom Green | 47 min |
| May 7, 10:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Nolan | 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 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 534 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -293 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1121 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 11:04 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carson, Dallam, Hansford, Hartley, Hutchinson, Lipscomb and 6 more | 116 min |
| May 7, 1:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray and 13 more | 9 hr |
| May 7, 1:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Crane, Ector, Howard, Martin, Midland and 3 more | 2 hr |
| May 7, 2:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Crosby, Dawson and 12 more | 83 min |
| May 7, 3:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray and 11 more | 94 min |
| May 7, 4:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dallam | 5 hr |
| May 7, 5:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Coke, Crane, Crockett, Dawson and 23 more | 89 min |
| May 7, 5:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress, Collingsworth and 19 more | 54 min |
| May 7, 5:38 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baylor, Foard, Hardeman, Knox, Wilbarger | 4 hr |
Nearby
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.