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Tornado Watch 178

May 4, 202231 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 4, 2022, 2:26 PM CDT for 31 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 4, 2022, 2:26 PM CDT (19:26 UTC)
Expired: May 4, 2022, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 3 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 31 counties

Borden County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Concho County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Maverick County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Upton County, TX, Val Verde County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:30 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: 40%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 20%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 40%
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: 60%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 90%

Warnings issued inside it

26 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 4, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	44 min
May 4, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Crane, Pecos, Upton	53 min
May 4, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	62 min
May 4, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Upton	23 min
May 4, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Terrell	27 min
May 4, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	25 min
May 4, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher, Jones	24 min
May 4, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher	23 min
May 4, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell, Scurry	47 min
May 4, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	46 min
May 4, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	44 min
May 4, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher	52 min
May 4, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Scurry	51 min
May 4, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher, Nolan	13 min
May 4, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Kinney, Val Verde	56 min
May 4, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher	43 min
May 4, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Kinney, Val Verde	60 min
May 4, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	45 min
May 4, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell	41 min
May 4, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher, Jones	33 min
May 4, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	EWX	Kinney, Uvalde	54 min
May 4, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher, Haskell, Jones	47 min
May 4, 9:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell, Throckmorton	43 min
May 4, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Throckmorton	36 min
May 4, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kinney, Maverick, Uvalde, Zavala	65 min
May 4, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett	33 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 184 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2051 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -158 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 984 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 199 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 157 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 8.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 4, 11:28 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Clay, Coleman and 15 more	3 hr
May 4, 12:33 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle and 18 more	3 hr
May 4, 1:26 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Archer, Clay, Cooke, Denton, Eastland, Grayson and 8 more	8 hr
May 4, 1:35 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Coke, Crockett, Glasscock, Howard, Irion, Midland and 10 more	2 hr
May 4, 1:56 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Armstrong, Baylor, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth and 26 more	8 hr
May 4, 2:26 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Clay, Cooke, Delta, Fannin, Grayson and 4 more	2 hr
May 4, 5:52 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Childress, Cottle, Foard, Hall, Hardeman, King and 4 more	83 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.