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Tornado Watch 145

May 7, 201949 counties in Texas

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 7, 3:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos46 min
May 7, 3:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCastro, Hale, Lamb, Swisher66 min
May 7, 4:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos, Ward45 min
May 7, 4:23 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBCastro, Hale, Swisher37 min
May 7, 4:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews, Ector, Ward, Winkler51 min
May 7, 4:25 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFPecos50 min
May 7, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews, Gaines48 min
May 7, 4:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley, Lubbock, Terry35 min
May 7, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBCastro, Swisher30 min
May 7, 5:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos44 min
May 7, 5:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCastro, Swisher54 min
May 7, 5:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews, Gaines, Winkler39 min
May 7, 5:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor, Ward, Winkler53 min
May 7, 5:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLynn, Terry37 min
May 7, 5:09 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMAFPecos51 min
May 7, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley, Lubbock35 min
May 7, 5:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFDawson, Gaines49 min
May 7, 5:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry25 min
May 7, 5:27 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedLUBSwisher33 min
May 7, 5:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews, Ector, Winkler33 min
May 7, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley, Lubbock, Terry31 min
May 7, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLynn, Terry18 min
May 7, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews, Gaines30 min
May 7, 5:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos59 min
May 7, 5:55 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFPecos50 min
May 7, 5:57 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedLUBBriscoe, Swisher48 min
May 7, 5:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFDawson, Gaines34 min
May 7, 6:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBCastro, Swisher2 hr
May 7, 6:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews, Gaines38 min
May 7, 6:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines18 min
May 7, 6:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCrockett47 min
May 7, 6:35 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFCrane, Pecos, Upton40 min
May 7, 6:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale, Lubbock36 min
May 7, 6:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane, Upton66 min
May 7, 6:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley, Terry32 min
May 7, 6:43 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFPecos47 min
May 7, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCochran30 min
May 7, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos60 min
May 7, 7:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley, Lamb, Lubbock35 min
May 7, 7:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb33 min
May 7, 7:26 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFPecos49 min
May 7, 7:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley, Lamb51 min
May 7, 7:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos59 min
May 7, 7:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCrockett44 min
May 7, 8:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBChildress, Cottle, Hall41 min
May 7, 8:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBChildress31 min
May 7, 8:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReagan, Upton64 min
May 7, 9:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReagan33 min
May 7, 10:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTIrion, Sterling, Tom Green43 min
May 7, 10:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCrockett63 min
May 7, 10:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCoke, Irion, Sterling, Tom Green47 min
May 7, 10:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCoke, Nolan42 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2019-05-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 534 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2019-05-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -58 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 7, 11:04 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCarson, Dallam, Hansford, Hartley, Hutchinson, Lipscomb and 6 more116 min
May 7, 1:28 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArmstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray and 13 more9 hr
May 7, 1:39 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAndrews, Crane, Ector, Howard, Martin, Midland and 3 more2 hr
May 7, 2:22 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBailey, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Crosby, Dawson and 12 more83 min
May 7, 3:41 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArmstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray and 11 more94 min
May 7, 4:47 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDallam5 hr
May 7, 5:01 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAndrews, Borden, Coke, Crane, Crockett, Dawson and 23 more89 min
May 7, 5:36 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArmstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress, Collingsworth and 19 more54 min
May 7, 5:38 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaylor, Foard, Hardeman, Knox, Wilbarger4 hr

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.