Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches in 2022
Tornado Watch 58
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 22, 2022, 12:59 AM CDT for 26 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 22, 2022, 12:59 AM CDT (05:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2022, 9:18 AM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 26 counties
Austin County, TX, Brazoria County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Chambers County, TX, Colorado County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Fort Bend County, TX, Galveston County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Harris County, TX, Houston County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Lee County, TX, Liberty County, TX, Madison County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Polk County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Walker County, TX, Waller County, TX, Washington County, TX, Wharton County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:01 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
- 30%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 1:27 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Grimes, Montgomery, Walker | 33 min |
| Mar 22, 5:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Austin, Colorado, Fort Bend, Jackson, Waller, Washington and 1 more | 26 min |
| Mar 22, 5:20 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Austin, Colorado, Wharton | 12 min |
| Mar 22, 5:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Austin, Brazos, Colorado, Fort Bend, Grimes, Harris and 3 more | 32 min |
| Mar 22, 5:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Jackson, Matagorda, Wharton | 24 min |
| Mar 22, 5:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Austin, Brazoria, Fort Bend, Harris, Montgomery, Waller and 1 more | 63 min |
| Mar 22, 6:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Fort Bend, Matagorda, Wharton | 46 min |
| Mar 22, 6:49 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Fort Bend | 11 min |
| Mar 22, 6:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery | 23 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
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 320 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -136 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 676 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 458 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 572 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 13.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 21, 7:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 23 more | 57 min |
| Mar 21, 7:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bastrop, Bell, Brazos, Burleson, Caldwell and 32 more | 96 min |
| Mar 21, 8:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 21 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 21, 9:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Brazos, Cherokee, Freestone, Henderson, Houston and 8 more | 93 min |
| Mar 21, 10:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bee, Duval, Jim Wells, Live Oak, McMullen, Refugio and 2 more | 95 min |
| Mar 21, 10:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Gregg and 10 more | 114 min |
| Mar 22, 12:38 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson, Caldwell, Colorado and 27 more | 67 min |
| Mar 22, 1:08 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Panola | 97 min |
| Mar 22, 1:58 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Cherokee, Nacogdoches, Panola, Rusk, Sabine and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 22, 4:00 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Austin, Colorado, DeWitt, Fort Bend, Goliad and 19 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 6:15 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Hardin, Harris and 11 more | 90 min |
| Mar 22, 7:08 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange, Tyler | 8 hr |
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.