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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 210
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 23, 2020, 3:06 PM CDT for 7 counties in Oklahoma; 33 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 2020, 3:06 PM CDT (20:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2020, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 40 counties
Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Foard County, TX, Garza County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 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
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 90%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 60%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
38 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Lynn | 57 min |
| May 23, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Carson | 46 min |
| May 23, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Lamb, Swisher | 56 min |
| May 23, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro, Swisher | 29 min |
| May 23, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Potter, Randall | 66 min |
| May 23, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 64 min |
| May 23, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Randall | 27 min |
| May 23, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Lubbock | 60 min |
| May 23, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Gray | 44 min |
| May 23, 4:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Garza | 24 min |
| May 23, 5:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Garza | 31 min |
| May 23, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Gray | 39 min |
| May 23, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Donley | 50 min |
| May 23, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Floyd, Hale, Lubbock, Lynn | 51 min |
| May 23, 5:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Garza | 32 min |
| May 23, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 59 min |
| May 23, 5:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Garza | 4 hr |
| May 23, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Gray | 47 min |
| May 23, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Floyd, Hale, Swisher | 59 min |
| May 23, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Donley, Gray | 36 min |
| May 23, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Lynn | 33 min |
| May 23, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Floyd, Hale, Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn and 1 more | 61 min |
| May 23, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver | 53 min |
| May 23, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Lynn | 64 min |
| May 23, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hemphill, Wheeler | 47 min |
| May 23, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Garza | 27 min |
| May 23, 6:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Garza, Lynn | 3 hr |
| May 23, 7:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Donley | 29 min |
| May 23, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Donley, Gray | 47 min |
| May 23, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Wheeler | 44 min |
| May 23, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 15 min |
| May 23, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock, Lynn | 60 min |
| May 23, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, Garza, Kent, King, Stonewall | 90 min |
| May 23, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry | 15 min |
| May 23, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Foard, Hardeman, Knox | 44 min |
| May 23, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harmon, Jackson, Tillman | 52 min |
| May 23, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Baylor, Foard, Knox, Wilbarger | 40 min |
| May 23, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche, Greer, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman, Washita | 49 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Carter, Cleveland, Coal and 16 more | 8 hr |
| May 22, 7:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore and 8 more | 58 min |
| May 22, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, McCurtain, Pittsburg and 2 more | 8 hr |
| May 22, 9:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Pittsburg, Sequoyah | 91 min |
| May 22, 9:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Carter, Cleveland, Coal and 16 more | 2 hr |
| May 22, 11:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Comanche and 18 more | 2 hr |
| May 23, 2:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Ellis, Harper, Roger Mills | 117 min |
| May 23, 5:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Beckham, Ellis, Greer, Harmon, Jackson and 1 more | 2 hr |
| May 22, 7:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Coke, Crockett, Fisher, Irion, Jones, Mitchell and 6 more | 2 hr |
| May 23, 2:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brewster, Coke, Crane, Crockett, Ector, Glasscock and 10 more | 93 min |
| May 23, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Borden, Brewster, Coke, Crane, Crockett, Dawson and 19 more | 8 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.