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Tornado Watch 169

April 26, 202332 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 26, 2023, 2:51 PM CDT for 32 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 26, 2023, 2:51 PM CDT (19:51 UTC)
Expired: Apr 26, 2023, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 3.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 65 kt

All 32 counties

Anderson County, TX, Bell County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Brown County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Falls County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Llano County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Mills County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Robertson County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Williamson County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:53 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: 70%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 50%
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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 26, 3:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Henderson, Van Zandt	19 min
Apr 26, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan	12 min
Apr 26, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland	77 min
Apr 26, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Eastland	26 min
Apr 26, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Hamilton	64 min
Apr 26, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Comanche, Erath	51 min
Apr 26, 4:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Bosque	44 min
Apr 26, 4:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Bosque, Coryell, McLennan	44 min
Apr 26, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown, Coleman	47 min
Apr 26, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche, Eastland	40 min
Apr 26, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bosque, Hill	65 min
Apr 26, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	FWD	Bosque, Erath, Hamilton, Somervell	48 min
Apr 26, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown, Coleman, McCulloch, San Saba	63 min
Apr 26, 5:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Bosque, Hill, McLennan	46 min
Apr 26, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	FWD	Mills	59 min
Apr 26, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	FWD	Bosque, Comanche, Erath, Hamilton	48 min
Apr 26, 5:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	McLennan	47 min
Apr 26, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	FWD	Bosque, Erath, Somervell	38 min
Apr 26, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	San Saba	66 min
Apr 26, 6:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Mills	42 min
Apr 26, 6:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Bosque, Hamilton	43 min
Apr 26, 6:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Falls, Limestone, McLennan	48 min
Apr 26, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Bosque, Hill	62 min
Apr 26, 6:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bosque, Hill	3 hr
Apr 26, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	FWD	Bosque, Hill, McLennan	65 min
Apr 26, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Coryell, Lampasas	54 min
Apr 26, 7:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Limestone	38 min
Apr 26, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone, Leon, Limestone	54 min
Apr 26, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Mason, San Saba	58 min
Apr 26, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	FWD	Bell, Coryell	63 min
Apr 26, 8:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Falls, Limestone, McLennan	3 hr
Apr 26, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Leon	60 min
Apr 26, 8:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Falls, Limestone, Robertson	66 min
Apr 26, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Bell, Falls, Milam	60 min
Apr 26, 9:01 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Leon, Robertson	3 hr
Apr 26, 9:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bell	3 hr
Apr 26, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Burnet, Llano	15 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 125 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: 31 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -393 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 671 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 276 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 254 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 25, 9:28 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Cottle, Crosby and 20 more	92 min
Apr 25, 11:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Camp, Clay, Collin, Cooke and 30 more	117 min
Apr 25, 11:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Crosby, Deaf Smith and 14 more	115 min
Apr 26, 3:29 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Eastland, Erath, Hood, Palo Pinto, Parker, Somervell and 1 more	2 hr
Apr 26, 9:43 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Collin, Cooke, Denton, Grayson, Jack and 5 more	2 hr
Apr 26, 1:20 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bell, Bosque, Brown, Burleson, Burnet, Callahan and 21 more	2 hr
Apr 26, 4:48 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bosque, Brown, Comanche, Eastland, Erath, Hamilton and 1 more	117 min
Apr 26, 5:01 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Angelina, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Houston, Jasper and 11 more	89 min
Apr 26, 6:40 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Coryell, Falls, Hill, Leon, Limestone, McLennan	2 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.