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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 52
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 17, 2020, 1:02 PM CDT for 11 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 17, 2020, 1:02 PM CDT (18:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2020, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 50 kt
Counties Baylor County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Foard County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:05 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
- 20%
- 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
- 40%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Knox | 52 min |
| Mar 17, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Foard, Knox | 43 min |
| Mar 17, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor | 47 min |
| Mar 17, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 25 min |
| Mar 17, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell, Throckmorton | 62 min |
| Mar 17, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell, Jones, Shackelford, Throckmorton | 31 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 201 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 554 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 8:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Garza, Hale and 9 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 17, 9:12 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress and 25 more | 93 min |
| Mar 17, 11:49 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Foard, Hale and 7 more | 86 min |
| Mar 17, 2:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Crane, Ector, Terrell, Upton, Winkler | 3 hr |
| Mar 17, 3:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Fisher, Haskell, Jones, Kent and 11 more | 119 min |
| Mar 17, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Borden, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crane and 31 more | 7 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.