Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches in 2019
Tornado Watch 184
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 18, 2019, 1:16 PM CDT for 25 counties in Texas. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 2019, 1:16 PM CDT (18:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 2019, 10:16 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 25 counties
Anderson County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bell County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Comal County, TX, Falls County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Hays County, TX, Houston County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Lee County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Llano County, TX, Madison County, TX, Milam County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Travis County, TX, Williamson County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:16 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
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 60%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
18 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 2:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Coryell | 54 min |
| May 18, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls, McLennan | 62 min |
| May 18, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 31 min |
| May 18, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Falls, Limestone, McLennan | 38 min |
| May 18, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls, Freestone, Limestone | 55 min |
| May 18, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson, Henderson | 54 min |
| May 18, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone, Limestone | 61 min |
| May 18, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson, Henderson | 38 min |
| May 18, 5:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Freestone, Limestone | 2 hr |
| May 18, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson, Freestone, Limestone | 61 min |
| May 18, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 65 min |
| May 18, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone, Leon, Limestone, Robertson | 56 min |
| May 18, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Leon | 51 min |
| May 18, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston | 43 min |
| May 18, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 26 min |
| May 18, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 27 min |
| May 18, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Leon | 53 min |
| May 18, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston | 45 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 216 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 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, 1:35 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Borden, Brown, Callahan, Clay and 33 more | 2 hr |
| May 18, 2:20 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Borden, Brown, Callahan, Childress and 54 more | 8 hr |
| May 18, 5:11 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Clay, Coke and 34 more | 2 hr |
| May 18, 6:51 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Clay, Coke and 26 more | 114 min |
| May 18, 9:10 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bosque, Brown, Coleman, Collin, Comanche, Concho and 36 more | 8 hr |
| May 18, 12:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Bowie, Burnet and 42 more | 64 min |
| May 18, 12:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin, Gregg and 9 more | 7 hr |
| May 18, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Lipscomb | 6 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
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.