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Tornado Watch 181
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 18, 2019, 9:10 AM CDT for 7 counties in Arkansas; 33 counties in Oklahoma; 42 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 2019, 9:10 AM CDT (14:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 2019, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 82 counties
Benton County, AR, Carroll County, AR, Crawford County, AR, Franklin County, AR, Madison County, AR, Sebastian County, AR, Washington County, AR, Adair County, OK, Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Cherokee County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Coal County, OK, Craig County, OK, Creek County, OK, Delaware County, OK, Haskell County, OK, Hughes County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Latimer County, OK, LeFlore County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Mayes County, OK, McIntosh County, OK, Muskogee County, OK, Nowata County, OK, Okfuskee County, OK, Okmulgee County, OK, Osage County, OK, Ottawa County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Pittsburg County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pushmataha County, OK, Rogers County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Sequoyah County, OK, Tulsa County, OK, Wagoner County, OK, Washington County, OK, Bosque County, TX, Brown County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Concho County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Menard County, TX, Mills County, TX, Montague County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rains County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wise County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:13 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
- 60%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 40%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 70%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
74 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| May 18, 10:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hughes, Seminole | 38 min |
| May 18, 10:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka, Coal, Hughes, Johnston, Pontotoc, Seminole | 64 min |
| May 18, 10:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 42 min |
| May 18, 10:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Creek, Okfuskee, Okmulgee | 53 min |
| May 18, 10:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Hughes, Seminole | 24 min |
| May 18, 10:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman, Concho, McCulloch | 39 min |
| May 18, 10:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka, Bryan, Coal, Johnston, Marshall | 55 min |
| May 18, 11:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner | 60 min |
| May 18, 11:06 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Rogers, Tulsa, Wagoner | 39 min |
| May 18, 11:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Atoka, Coal, Hughes | 32 min |
| May 18, 11:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | McIntosh, Muskogee, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Tulsa, Wagoner | 61 min |
| May 18, 11:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown, Coleman | 42 min |
| May 18, 11:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Latimer, McIntosh, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 48 min |
| May 18, 11:33 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Rogers | 27 min |
| May 18, 11:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | McCulloch | 39 min |
| May 18, 11:43 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Mayes, Rogers, Wagoner | 47 min |
| May 18, 11:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Craig, Mayes, Nowata, Rogers, Wagoner | 59 min |
| May 18, 11:56 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Wagoner | 49 min |
| May 18, 11:58 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Craig, Mayes, Rogers | 47 min |
| May 18, 11:58 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Latimer, Pittsburg | 17 min |
| May 18, 12:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Cherokee, Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee, Sequoyah | 55 min |
| May 18, 12:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Haskell, Latimer, McIntosh, Muskogee, Pittsburg, Pushmataha | 50 min |
| May 18, 12:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | McCulloch, Mason, San Saba | 46 min |
| May 18, 12:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, Ottawa | 45 min |
| May 18, 12:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 58 min |
| May 18, 12:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | San Saba | 42 min |
| May 18, 12:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw | 25 min |
| May 18, 12:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 54 min |
| May 18, 12:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Denton, Tarrant | 3 hr |
| May 18, 12:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Craig, Ottawa | 50 min |
| May 18, 12:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell | 15 min |
| May 18, 12:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, McIntosh, Muskogee, Sequoyah | 50 min |
| May 18, 12:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McIntosh, Muskogee and 3 more | 48 min |
| May 18, 12:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Dallas | 61 min |
| May 18, 1:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell | 17 min |
| May 18, 1:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, Washington | 67 min |
| May 18, 1:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | LeFlore | 34 min |
| May 18, 1:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Haskell, LeFlore | 24 min |
| May 18, 1:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Johnson, Tarrant | 33 min |
| May 18, 1:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian, Washington | 41 min |
| May 18, 1:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 30 min |
| May 18, 1:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Collin, Dallas, Denton, Tarrant | 3 hr |
| May 18, 1:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Crawford, Sebastian | 36 min |
| May 18, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Ellis, Johnson, Tarrant | 65 min |
| May 18, 2:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 28 min |
| May 18, 2:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 19 min |
| May 18, 2:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Coryell | 54 min |
| May 18, 2:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Washington | 37 min |
| May 18, 2:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian, Washington | 64 min |
| May 18, 2:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Franklin, Sebastian | 32 min |
| May 18, 2:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque, Hill, McLennan | 61 min |
| May 18, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Carroll, Madison, Washington | 60 min |
| May 18, 2:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Crawford, Franklin | 23 min |
| May 18, 2:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Franklin, Madison | 35 min |
| May 18, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis, Hill, Navarro | 64 min |
| May 18, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls, McLennan | 62 min |
| May 18, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton, Carroll, Madison | 42 min |
| May 18, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Ellis, Hunt, Kaufman, Rockwall | 61 min |
| May 18, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta, Fannin, Hopkins, Hunt | 58 min |
| May 18, 3:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Ellis, Navarro | 22 min |
| May 18, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Henderson, Kaufman | 42 min |
| May 18, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Falls, Limestone, McLennan | 38 min |
| May 18, 3:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Kaufman, Van Zandt | 29 min |
| May 18, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta, Fannin, Hopkins, Hunt, Lamar | 63 min |
| May 18, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Rains, Van Zandt | 62 min |
| May 18, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Van Zandt | 51 min |
| May 18, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Delta, Hopkins, Lamar | 50 min |
| May 18, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson, Henderson | 54 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 12:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 35 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
- 2163 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 722 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 302 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 311 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.0
- Supercell composite
- 16.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 12:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Howard, Little River, Polk, Scott, Sevier | 64 min |
| May 18, 12:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin and 9 more | 88 min |
| May 18, 12:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark and 42 more | 7 hr |
| May 18, 3:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Clark, Cleburne, Conway, Dallas and 24 more | 88 min |
| May 18, 6:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Chicot, Cleveland, Craighead and 21 more | 116 min |
| May 18, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Crittenden, Cross, Lee, Phillips, St. Francis | 4 hr |
| May 18, 9:38 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barry, Barton, Cedar, Dade, Greene, Jasper and 6 more | 2 hr |
| May 18, 10:07 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barry, Barton, Bates, Benton, Camden, Cedar and 22 more | 7 hr |
| May 18, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Audrain, Bollinger, Boone, Butler, Callaway, Carter and 35 more | 4 hr |
| May 18, 6:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Knox, Lewis, Marion, Scotland | 2 hr |
| 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, 2:20 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Grady and 9 more | 8 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, 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 |
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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.