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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 367
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 23, 2023, 9:47 PM CDT for 17 counties in Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 2023, 9:47 PM CDT (02:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2023, 1:18 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Clay County, TX, Foard County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Jack County, TX, Knox County, TX, Montague County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:46 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
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor, Foard, Wichita, Wilbarger | 32 min |
| Jun 23, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Foard, Knox | 51 min |
| Jun 23, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Baylor, Wichita, Wilbarger | 33 min |
| Jun 23, 10:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Foard, Hardeman | 27 min |
| Jun 23, 11:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor, Foard, Hardeman, Knox, Wilbarger | 41 min |
| Jun 23, 11:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Baylor, Wichita, Wilbarger | 37 min |
| Jun 24, 12:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer, Clay | 26 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 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 318 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
- 1447 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -114 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1267 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 8.7
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 7:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Cherokee, Freestone, Henderson, Navarro, Smith and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 23, 9:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Callahan, Clay, Coleman, Comanche and 20 more | 85 min |
| Jun 23, 11:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Haskell, Hood and 11 more | 55 min |
| Jun 24, 6:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Borden, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Fisher, Glasscock and 21 more | 119 min |
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.