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Tornado Watch 255

June 2, 20239 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 2, 2023, 4:54 PM CDT for 9 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 2023, 4:54 PM CDT (21:54 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2023, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 3 in
Strongest gust expected: 65 kt

Counties Edwards County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Menard County, TX, Real County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Val Verde County, TX

The radar

The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 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: 30%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 10%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 40%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 30%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 60%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 50%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 80%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Val Verde	48 min
Jun 2, 6:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Crockett, Sutton	58 min
Jun 2, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Val Verde	51 min
Jun 2, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Val Verde	56 min
Jun 2, 7:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Val Verde	53 min
Jun 2, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards, Val Verde	65 min
Jun 2, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Val Verde	28 min
Jun 2, 8:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Val Verde	12 min
Jun 2, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards, Val Verde	60 min
Jun 2, 8:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Edwards, Val Verde	23 min
Jun 2, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Val Verde	55 min
Jun 2, 8:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Edwards, Kinney, Val Verde	13 min
Jun 2, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Edwards, Kinney	62 min
Jun 2, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Val Verde	38 min
Jun 2, 9:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards, Real	56 min
Jun 2, 10:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Edwards, Kinney, Maverick, Real, Uvalde, Val Verde and 1 more	56 min
Jun 2, 10:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bandera, Kerr, Real	51 min
Jun 2, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Bandera, Medina, Real, Uvalde, Zavala	49 min
Jun 2, 10:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kinney, Maverick, Uvalde, Zavala	51 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

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, 11:57 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Crane, Crockett, Dawson, Ector and 17 more	8 hr
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, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.