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Tornado Watch 254

June 2, 202323 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 2, 2023, 11:57 AM CDT for 23 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 2023, 11:57 AM CDT (16:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2023, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 4 in
Strongest gust expected: 75 kt

All 23 counties

Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Loving County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:59 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: 50%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 20%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 40%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 40%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 70%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 70%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 90%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 12:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos, Reeves	43 min
Jun 2, 12:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	54 min
Jun 2, 12:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Crane, Pecos	63 min
Jun 2, 1:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos	29 min
Jun 2, 1:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	MAF	Gaines	52 min
Jun 2, 1:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	63 min
Jun 2, 1:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Gaines	59 min
Jun 2, 1:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	MAF	Pecos	45 min
Jun 2, 2:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Andrews	50 min
Jun 2, 2:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Pecos	41 min
Jun 2, 2:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	55 min
Jun 2, 2:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	MAF	Pecos	22 min
Jun 2, 2:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	46 min
Jun 2, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Andrews, Gaines	47 min
Jun 2, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	62 min
Jun 2, 3:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Gaines	4 hr
Jun 2, 3:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Pecos	2 hr
Jun 2, 3:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Gaines	51 min
Jun 2, 3:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Pecos	117 min
Jun 2, 3:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson, Gaines	56 min
Jun 2, 3:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Dawson, Gaines	3 hr
Jun 2, 3:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Andrews	4 hr
Jun 2, 3:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	48 min
Jun 2, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Andrews, Borden, Dawson, Gaines, Martin	65 min
Jun 2, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	63 min
Jun 2, 4:01 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	119 min
Jun 2, 4:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	47 min
Jun 2, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Dawson	43 min
Jun 2, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Dawson, Gaines, Martin	59 min
Jun 2, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	56 min
Jun 2, 4:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Terrell	115 min
Jun 2, 4:53 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Andrews, Dawson, Gaines, Martin	2 hr
Jun 2, 4:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Terrell	52 min
Jun 2, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	MAF	Borden, Dawson	47 min
Jun 2, 5:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	39 min
Jun 2, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett	53 min
Jun 2, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster, Pecos, Terrell	67 min
Jun 2, 5:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Borden	3 hr
Jun 2, 5:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	118 min
Jun 2, 5:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Terrell	50 min
Jun 2, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Borden, Scurry	63 min
Jun 2, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Dawson, Howard, Martin	63 min
Jun 2, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	63 min
Jun 2, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Ector, Martin, Midland	54 min
Jun 2, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Crockett	52 min
Jun 2, 5:59 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Terrell	2 hr
Jun 2, 6:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Crockett	3 hr
Jun 2, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Crockett	38 min
Jun 2, 6:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Crockett	47 min
Jun 2, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Terrell	62 min
Jun 2, 6:32 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Martin, Midland	118 min
Jun 2, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Midland	58 min
Jun 2, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Terrell	37 min
Jun 2, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Terrell	35 min
Jun 2, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Howard, Mitchell, Scurry	62 min
Jun 2, 6:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Terrell	45 min
Jun 2, 6:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Crockett, Sutton	58 min
Jun 2, 6:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Crockett	3 hr
Jun 2, 7:06 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Borden, Glasscock, Howard, Martin, Midland, Mitchell and 1 more	3 hr
Jun 2, 7:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Terrell	3 hr
Jun 2, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Howard, Mitchell	54 min
Jun 2, 7:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	MAF	Terrell	34 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 33 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: 1081 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -204 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 975 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 10:34 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Cochran and 25 more	86 min
Jun 2, 11:26 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress and 35 more	9 hr
Jun 2, 11:35 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Crane, Crockett, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 11 more	85 min
Jun 2, 1:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dallam, Hartley, Sherman	113 min
Jun 2, 2:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines, Martin and 5 more	87 min
Jun 2, 3:08 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle and 16 more	97 min
Jun 2, 3:41 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Terrell, Val Verde	94 min
Jun 2, 4:54 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Edwards, Kimble, Kinney, Menard, Real, Schleicher and 3 more	6 hr
Jun 2, 5:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Donley and 14 more	2 hr
Jun 2, 6:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crockett, Edwards, Kerr, Kimble, Kinney, Real and 5 more	90 min
Jun 2, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Callahan, Coke, Fisher, Foard and 12 more	5 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.