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Tornado Watch 184

May 4, 202417 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 4, 2024, 2:32 PM CDT for 17 counties in Texas. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 4, 2024, 2:32 PM CDT (19:32 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2024, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 4.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

Counties Brewster County, TX, Concho County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Irion County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Upton County, TX, Val Verde County, TX, Ward County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:32 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: 60%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 40%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 20%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 80%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 80%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 4, 2:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	56 min
May 4, 2:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos, Reeves	33 min
May 4, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Pecos	47 min
May 4, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Ector, Pecos, Reeves, Ward, Winkler	56 min
May 4, 3:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	53 min
May 4, 4:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos	44 min
May 4, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reeves	39 min
May 4, 4:10 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Pecos	3 hr
May 4, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector, Ward, Winkler	57 min
May 4, 4:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos	51 min
May 4, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Pecos, Reeves	47 min
May 4, 4:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Crane, Ector, Midland, Ward, Winkler	3 hr
May 4, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Ector, Upton, Ward, Winkler	55 min
May 4, 5:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	39 min
May 4, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Ector, Midland, Upton	64 min
May 4, 5:53 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	3 hr
May 4, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	67 min
May 4, 6:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Midland, Upton	43 min
May 4, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	62 min
May 4, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman, Concho, McCulloch	44 min
May 4, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Midland, Reagan, Upton	58 min
May 4, 6:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Reagan, Upton	47 min
May 4, 7:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Midland, Reagan, Upton	3 hr
May 4, 7:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Coleman, Concho, McCulloch	35 min
May 4, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	MAF	Terrell	42 min
May 4, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Coleman, Concho, McCulloch	38 min
May 4, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan, Upton	66 min
May 4, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	MAF	Terrell	39 min
May 4, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	SJT	Crockett	52 min
May 4, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Terrell	42 min
May 4, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	39 min
May 4, 8:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	McCulloch, San Saba	67 min
May 4, 8:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Terrell	3 hr
May 4, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Val Verde	63 min
May 4, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	63 min
May 4, 8:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Reagan, Upton	2 hr
May 4, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	MAF	Terrell	14 min
May 4, 8:34 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Coleman, Concho, Runnels	3 hr
May 4, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Crockett	60 min
May 4, 8:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Crockett	27 min
May 4, 8:52 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Crockett	5 hr
May 4, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Val Verde	64 min
May 4, 9:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Crockett	45 min
May 4, 10:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Crockett, Sutton	26 min
May 4, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett, Schleicher, Sutton	40 min
May 4, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Sutton	50 min
May 4, 10:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Brown, Coleman, McCulloch, San Saba	4 hr

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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 1342 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -140 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 793 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 158 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.2

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 3, 7:27 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Childress, Clay, Cooke, Cottle and 15 more	2 hr
May 3, 9:38 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Kerr, Kimble, Real	2 hr
May 4, 12:36 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Brewster, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 38 more	2 hr
May 4, 1:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 26 more	10 hr
May 4, 3:47 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho and 27 more	118 min
May 4, 6:31 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bandera, Bell, Blanco, Brown, Burnet, Caldwell and 37 more	119 min

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.