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Tornado Watch 178

May 3, 202436 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 3, 2024, 2:14 PM CDT for 36 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 3, 2024, 2:14 PM CDT (19:14 UTC)
Expired: May 3, 2024, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 4.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 65 kt

All 36 counties

Borden County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Concho County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Hale County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Terry County, TX, Tom Green County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:19 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: 30%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 30%
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: 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
May 3, 2:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard, Mitchell, Scurry	59 min
May 3, 2:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell, Scurry	67 min
May 3, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Scurry	62 min
May 3, 3:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Coke, Nolan	44 min
May 3, 3:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho, Runnels, Tom Green	52 min
May 3, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Garza, Kent	63 min
May 3, 3:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Coke	46 min
May 3, 3:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Mitchell	59 min
May 3, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Scurry	67 min
May 3, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Scurry	62 min
May 3, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Coke, Nolan	61 min
May 3, 4:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Floyd, Hale, Swisher	57 min
May 3, 4:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Coke	38 min
May 3, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden	30 min
May 3, 4:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	SJT	Coke, Tom Green	51 min
May 3, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Briscoe, Hale, Swisher	45 min
May 3, 4:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LUB	Floyd, Hale, Swisher	25 min
May 3, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Castro, Swisher	18 min
May 3, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent	48 min
May 3, 4:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	SJT	Coke, Runnels, Tom Green	43 min
May 3, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Briscoe, Floyd, Hale, Swisher	26 min
May 3, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Nolan	37 min
May 3, 5:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	SJT	Coke	23 min
May 3, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman, Concho, Runnels, Tom Green	44 min
May 3, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Coke, Runnels, Tom Green	61 min
May 3, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Garza	45 min
May 3, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho, Runnels, Schleicher, Tom Green	62 min
May 3, 5:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Concho	38 min
May 3, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Motley	44 min
May 3, 6:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Tom Green	22 min
May 3, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Briscoe, Floyd, Hall, Motley	63 min
May 3, 6:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Concho, Menard, Schleicher, Tom Green	48 min
May 3, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Concho, McCulloch, Menard, Tom Green	57 min
May 3, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Concho, Kimble, Menard, Schleicher	66 min
May 3, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Briscoe, Hall	23 min
May 3, 7:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett, Irion, Tom Green	38 min
May 3, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion, Sterling, Tom Green	45 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 154 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: 1108 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -177 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1714 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 2, 8:14 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 29 more	91 min
May 2, 11:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bell, Bosque, Brown, Coryell, Falls, Hamilton and 7 more	117 min
May 3, 4:23 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Angelina, Chambers, Cherokee, Hardin, Harris, Houston and 17 more	3 hr
May 3, 1:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Borden, Coke, Coleman, Crane, Crockett, Dawson and 17 more	117 min
May 3, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Brewster, Crane, Crockett, Ector, Edwards, Kerr and 15 more	8 hr
May 3, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Dallam, Hansford, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Sherman	7 hr
May 3, 4:52 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Coke, Crosby, Fisher, Floyd, Garza, Kent and 5 more	83 min
May 3, 6:13 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dallam, Hansford, Ochiltree, Sherman	92 min
May 3, 6:27 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crockett, Kinney, Reagan, Terrell, Upton, Val Verde	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.