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Tornado Watch 210

May 8, 20247 counties in Arkansas; 52 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 8, 2024, 3:27 PM CDT for 7 counties in Arkansas; 52 counties in Texas. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 8, 2024, 3:27 PM CDT (20:27 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2024, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 4 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 59 counties

Hempstead County, AR, Howard County, AR, Lafayette County, AR, Little River County, AR, Miller County, AR, Nevada County, AR, Sevier County, AR, Anderson County, TX, Bell County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Bowie County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Collin County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Falls County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Lee County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Llano County, TX, Marion County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Morris County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Rains County, TX, Red River County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Smith County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Titus County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wood County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:27 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: 20%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 10%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 60%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 60%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Coryell	33 min
May 8, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin	43 min
May 8, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin, Lamar	23 min
May 8, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Hunt	54 min
May 8, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Fannin, Lamar	62 min
May 8, 7:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Lamar	31 min
May 8, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Hunt	58 min
May 8, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Delta, Hopkins, Hunt	50 min
May 8, 7:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Lamar	33 min
May 8, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SHV	Red River	54 min
May 8, 8:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Red River	40 min
May 8, 8:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hopkins, Hunt, Rains	54 min
May 8, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SHV	Bowie, Red River	48 min
May 8, 9:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Hopkins, Hunt, Rains	29 min
May 8, 9:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SHV	Franklin, Wood	66 min
May 8, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Hopkins	38 min
May 8, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SHV	Little River, Sevier	43 min
May 8, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Kaufman, Rains, Van Zandt	60 min
May 8, 10:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Miller	51 min
May 8, 10:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Van Zandt	26 min
May 8, 10:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SHV	Camp, Franklin, Morris, Titus, Upshur, Wood	56 min
May 8, 10:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Smith, Wood	63 min
May 8, 10:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Van Zandt	34 min
May 8, 10:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SHV	Gregg, Smith, Upshur, Wood	42 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
May 7, 11:07 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Cleburne, Craighead, Cross, Dallas, Faulkner and 28 more	113 min
May 8, 12:56 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Arkansas, Clark, Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Crittenden and 29 more	5 hr
May 8, 3:23 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Crittenden, Cross and 15 more	2 hr
May 8, 11:01 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Madison, Marion and 1 more	89 min
May 8, 1:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more	2 hr
May 8, 2:18 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Howard and 15 more	8 hr
May 8, 3:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison and 2 more	115 min
May 8, 5:28 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian, Washington	2 hr
May 8, 2:46 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Bowie, Burnet, Camp and 37 more	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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.