Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches in 2023
Tornado Watch 356
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 21, 2023, 10:23 PM CDT for 11 counties in Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 21, 2023, 10:23 PM CDT (03:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2023, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 80 kt
Counties Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Jones County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Taylor County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:25 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
- 40%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 20%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 80%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 70%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 70%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 60%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 64 min |
| Jun 21, 10:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Fisher | 29 min |
| Jun 21, 11:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Fisher, Jones, Nolan, Taylor | 45 min |
| Jun 21, 11:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Mitchell, Scurry | 61 min |
| Jun 21, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher, Jones, Nolan, Taylor | 49 min |
| Jun 22, 12:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Jones, Shackelford, Taylor | 61 min |
| Jun 22, 1:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown, Callahan, Coleman | 36 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 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 221 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4699 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Briscoe, Childress, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 21, 8:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cottle, Dickens, King, Motley, Stonewall | 55 min |
| Jun 21, 8:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Bastrop, Burnet, Caldwell, Colorado, Fayette and 12 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 21, 9:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cottle, Dickens, Fisher, Haskell, Jones, Kent and 6 more | 116 min |
| Jun 21, 11:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Mitchell, Nolan, Runnels and 1 more | 86 min |
| Jun 22, 12:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dallam | 2 hr |
| Jun 22, 2:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Childress, Collingsworth, Wheeler | 114 min |
| Jun 22, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Knox and 2 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
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.