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Tornado Watch 180
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 18, 2019, 2:20 AM CDT for 15 counties in Oklahoma; 60 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 2019, 2:20 AM CDT (07:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 2019, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 75 counties
Carter County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Love County, OK, McClain County, OK, Murray County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Borden County, TX, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Childress County, TX, Clay County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Concho County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ector County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Foard County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jack County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, Kimble County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Martin County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mills County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Montague County, TX, Motley County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Upton County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:19 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
- 30%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 70%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- 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
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
54 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 2:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 39 min |
| May 18, 2:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Ector, Martin | 64 min |
| May 18, 3:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion | 48 min |
| May 18, 3:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Dawson, Howard, Martin, Mitchell, Scurry | 61 min |
| May 18, 4:49 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Irion, Tom Green | 26 min |
| May 18, 4:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Glasscock, Howard, Mitchell, Scurry | 63 min |
| May 18, 5:08 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 22 min |
| May 18, 5:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Runnels, Tom Green | 45 min |
| May 18, 5:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor, Foard, Wilbarger | 44 min |
| May 18, 5:21 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 24 min |
| May 18, 5:39 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 51 min |
| May 18, 5:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Jones, Shackelford, Taylor | 65 min |
| May 18, 5:45 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Jones, Taylor | 45 min |
| May 18, 5:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher, Jones | 57 min |
| May 18, 5:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor, Foard, Knox, Wilbarger | 33 min |
| May 18, 5:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Runnels, Tom Green | 62 min |
| May 18, 6:15 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Jones, Shackelford | 30 min |
| May 18, 6:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke | 39 min |
| May 18, 6:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo, Comanche, Grady | 48 min |
| May 18, 6:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Concho, Runnels, Tom Green | 63 min |
| May 18, 6:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche, Cotton | 30 min |
| May 18, 6:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, McClain, Oklahoma | 38 min |
| May 18, 6:55 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Concho, Runnels | 35 min |
| May 18, 7:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Shackelford, Throckmorton | 55 min |
| May 18, 7:06 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Runnels | 24 min |
| May 18, 7:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion, Sterling, Tom Green | 65 min |
| May 18, 7:19 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Runnels | 41 min |
| May 18, 7:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cleveland, Logan, Oklahoma | 45 min |
| May 18, 7:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo, Comanche, Kiowa | 43 min |
| May 18, 7:37 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OUN | Comanche | 24 min |
| May 18, 7:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman, Runnels | 67 min |
| May 18, 7:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Nolan, Runnels, Taylor | 45 min |
| May 18, 7:49 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Coleman, Runnels | 25 min |
| May 18, 7:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens, Young | 54 min |
| May 18, 7:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Caddo, Comanche, Grady, Stephens | 3 hr |
| May 18, 7:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo, Canadian, Grady, Kiowa, Washita | 47 min |
| May 18, 7:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Canadian, Grady | 46 min |
| May 18, 8:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OUN | Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, McClain, Oklahoma | 3 hr |
| May 18, 8:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Coleman, Runnels, Taylor | 51 min |
| May 18, 8:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Young | 20 min |
| May 18, 8:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Coleman | 35 min |
| May 18, 8:33 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 117 min |
| May 18, 8:34 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Coleman | 26 min |
| May 18, 8:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Runnels | 3 hr |
| May 18, 8:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Callahan | 23 min |
| May 18, 8:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cleveland, Lincoln, Oklahoma, Pottawatomie | 52 min |
| May 18, 9:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Coleman | 57 min |
| May 18, 9:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Garvin, Jefferson, McClain, Murray, Stephens | 40 min |
| May 18, 9:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown | 66 min |
| May 18, 9:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Eastland | 60 min |
| May 18, 9:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garvin, McClain, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Seminole | 43 min |
| May 18, 9:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Carter, Garvin, Johnston, Murray, Pontotoc | 44 min |
| May 18, 9:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Runnels | 3 hr |
| May 18, 9:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman | 48 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
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 1123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -131 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1440 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 7:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver | 2 hr |
| May 18, 1:35 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Grady, Jefferson and 2 more | 2 hr |
| May 18, 5:11 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Jefferson, Love and 3 more | 2 hr |
| May 18, 6:51 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Cleveland, Coal, Cotton, Garvin, Grady and 11 more | 114 min |
| May 18, 7:47 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Creek and 18 more | 88 min |
| May 18, 9:10 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coal and 27 more | 8 hr |
| May 18, 9:38 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Craig, Creek, Delaware, Mayes, Nowata, Osage and 5 more | 2 hr |
| May 18, 12:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Choctaw, Latimer, LeFlore, McCurtain, Pushmataha | 64 min |
| May 18, 12:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Sequoyah | 88 min |
| May 18, 12:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 7 hr |
| May 18, 3:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Dewey, Ellis, Garfield, Grant, Harper and 3 more | 119 min |
| May 18, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beaver, Blaine, Ellis, Garfield, Grant and 5 more | 6 hr |
| May 18, 6:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Beaver, Dewey, Ellis, Garfield, Grant and 6 more | 83 min |
| May 17, 9:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crockett, Irion, Reagan, Schleicher, Sutton, Terrell and 1 more | 85 min |
| May 17, 11:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Borden, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho and 34 more | 2 hr |
| May 18, 1:16 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Brazos, Burleson and 19 more | 9 hr |
| May 18, 5:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Grimes, Houston, Jasper, Nacogdoches, Newton and 9 more | 119 min |
| May 18, 6:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cooke, Dallas, Denton, Parker, Tarrant, Wise | 53 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.