Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches in 2023

Tornado Watch 351

June 21, 20235 counties in Kansas; 9 counties in Oklahoma; 13 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 21, 2023, 2:57 PM CDT for 5 counties in Kansas; 9 counties in Oklahoma; 13 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 21, 2023, 2:57 PM CDT (19:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 2023, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 4 in
Strongest gust expected: 70 kt

All 27 counties

Clark County, KS, Meade County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

What SPC expected

The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.

Two or more tornadoes: 40%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 20%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 90%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 70%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 95%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 70%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 21, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson	67 min
Jun 21, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson	65 min
Jun 21, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Armstrong, Carson, Donley, Gray	62 min
Jun 21, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Texas	56 min
Jun 21, 6:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Texas	47 min
Jun 21, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	Morton	38 min
Jun 21, 6:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	AMA	Armstrong	38 min
Jun 21, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Hutchinson, Moore	65 min
Jun 21, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Armstrong, Donley	56 min
Jun 21, 6:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Texas	38 min
Jun 21, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Carson, Hutchinson	61 min
Jun 21, 7:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Texas	51 min
Jun 21, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Cimarron, Texas	56 min
Jun 21, 8:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Cimarron	54 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 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 524 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -339 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2615 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 20, 7:15 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne	90 min
Jun 21, 1:25 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barton, Butler, Ellis, Ellsworth, Graham, Harvey and 15 more	3 hr
Jun 21, 3:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barber, Barton, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ellis and 20 more	5 hr
Jun 21, 6:08 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Comanche, Harper, Kingman, McPherson, Pratt and 2 more	3 hr
Jun 21, 1:52 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Grant, Haskell, Meade, Morton, Seward, Stanton and 1 more	2 hr
Jun 21, 4:52 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Greeley, Hamilton	53 min
Jun 21, 6:39 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Morton, Stevens	96 min
Jun 21, 10:02 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Canadian, Cleveland, Creek, Kingfisher, Lincoln, Logan and 7 more	118 min
Jun 21, 3:21 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bosque, Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Freestone and 16 more	114 min
Jun 21, 5:48 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Blanco and 24 more	117 min
Jun 21, 5:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anderson, Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers and 22 more	5 hr
Jun 21, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell and 14 more	5 hr

Nearby

Tornado Watches in Texas, 2023 Tornado Watches in Oklahoma, 2023 Tornado Watches in Kansas, 2023 Every tornado watch in 2023

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.