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Tornado Watch 110

April 2, 202315 counties in Oklahoma; 57 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 2, 2023, 2:44 PM CDT for 15 counties in Oklahoma; 57 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 2, 2023, 2:44 PM CDT (19:44 UTC)
Expired: Apr 2, 2023, 9:32 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 3 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 72 counties

Atoka County, OK, Bryan County, OK, Carter County, OK, Coal County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Murray County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Anderson County, TX, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Bell County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Clay County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Falls County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Mills County, TX, Montague County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rains County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 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: 60%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 40%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 50%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 10%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 90%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 70%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 2:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Montague, Wise, Young	49 min
Apr 2, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Palo Pinto, Parker, Wise	45 min
Apr 2, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Archer, Clay, Wichita	26 min
Apr 2, 3:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Johnson, Parker, Tarrant	44 min
Apr 2, 3:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Denton, Montague, Wise	49 min
Apr 2, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Dallas, Denton	54 min
Apr 2, 4:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton, Grayson	52 min
Apr 2, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland	42 min
Apr 2, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Montague	40 min
Apr 2, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls, Limestone	63 min
Apr 2, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Delta, Fannin, Hopkins, Hunt, Lamar	27 min
Apr 2, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin, Grayson, Lamar	39 min
Apr 2, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche, Eastland, Erath	62 min
Apr 2, 5:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Falls, Limestone	43 min
Apr 2, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Montague	36 min
Apr 2, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Love	48 min
Apr 2, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson, Kaufman, Van Zandt	30 min
Apr 2, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Grayson	48 min
Apr 2, 5:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	FWD	Freestone, Leon, Limestone	47 min
Apr 2, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coryell, Hamilton, Lampasas, Mills	63 min
Apr 2, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Erath, Hamilton, Somervell	62 min
Apr 2, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Parker, Wise	61 min
Apr 2, 6:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Freestone, Leon	45 min
Apr 2, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Cooke, Denton, Grayson	42 min
Apr 2, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Denton, Parker, Tarrant, Wise	54 min
Apr 2, 6:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Bosque, Hill	49 min
Apr 2, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Coryell	63 min
Apr 2, 6:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Anderson, Leon	46 min
Apr 2, 7:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Bell, Coryell	44 min
Apr 2, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Delta, Fannin, Hunt, Lamar	38 min
Apr 2, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Tarrant	32 min
Apr 2, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson	17 min
Apr 2, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Bell, Milam	64 min
Apr 2, 8:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Milam	45 min
Apr 2, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Milam	25 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

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 22 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2389 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 269 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 341 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 1:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bryan, Carter, Comanche, Cotton, Jefferson, Johnston and 5 more	113 min
Apr 2, 12:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Cherokee, Grimes, Hardin, Houston and 15 more	3 hr
Apr 2, 5:11 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Comanche, Coryell, Eastland and 23 more	2 hr
Apr 2, 5:24 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 20 more	2 hr
Apr 2, 5:56 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Angelina, Brazos, Burleson, Camp, Cass, Cherokee and 18 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.