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Tornado Watch 286

May 22, 202451 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 22, 2024, 12:30 PM CDT for 51 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 22, 2024, 12:30 PM CDT (17:30 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2024, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 4 in
Strongest gust expected: 70 kt

All 51 counties

Anderson County, TX, Bell County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Concho County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Falls County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Irion County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Limestone County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Menard County, TX, Mills County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rains County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:34 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: 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: 60%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 12:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Grayson	29 min
May 22, 12:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Fannin, Grayson	62 min
May 22, 1:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Cooke, Denton, Tarrant	58 min
May 22, 1:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Nolan, Runnels, Taylor	40 min
May 22, 1:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan	28 min
May 22, 1:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Collin, Cooke, Denton, Grayson	3 hr
May 22, 1:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman, Runnels, Taylor	47 min
May 22, 1:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Dallas, Denton, Tarrant	53 min
May 22, 1:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin	65 min
May 22, 2:15 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Collin, Fannin, Grayson, Hunt	3 hr
May 22, 2:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Brown, Coleman, Runnels	52 min
May 22, 2:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Delta, Fannin, Hopkins, Hunt, Lamar	33 min
May 22, 2:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Collin, Denton	2 hr
May 22, 2:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Dallas, Rockwall	63 min
May 22, 2:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Brown, Coleman	48 min
May 22, 3:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Irion, Sterling, Tom Green	37 min
May 22, 3:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Sterling	27 min
May 22, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Collin, Hunt	65 min
May 22, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Brown, Coleman	63 min
May 22, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown, Coleman, McCulloch, San Saba	44 min
May 22, 3:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Brown, Coleman	3 hr
May 22, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion, Sterling, Tom Green	62 min
May 22, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Comanche, Hamilton, Mills	60 min
May 22, 4:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Irion, Sterling, Tom Green	27 min
May 22, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Palo Pinto, Parker	31 min
May 22, 4:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Collin, Hunt, Rockwall	3 hr
May 22, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Hopkins, Hunt, Rains	55 min
May 22, 4:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hamilton, Mills	3 hr
May 22, 4:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Mills	24 min
May 22, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Nolan, Runnels, Taylor	38 min
May 22, 4:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Tom Green	2 hr
May 22, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Concho, Tom Green	62 min
May 22, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Coryell, Hamilton, Lampasas, Mills	58 min
May 22, 5:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Hopkins, Rains	5 hr
May 22, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Callahan, Coleman, Runnels, Taylor	51 min
May 22, 5:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Coryell, Lampasas	3 hr
May 22, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion, Tom Green	29 min
May 22, 5:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Coryell, Lampasas	41 min
May 22, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	McLennan	63 min
May 22, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Bell, Coryell, Lampasas	67 min
May 22, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman, Concho, McCulloch	47 min
May 22, 6:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Bell, Coryell, McLennan	43 min
May 22, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan, Coleman	37 min
May 22, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho, Menard, Schleicher, Tom Green	48 min
May 22, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett, Irion, Schleicher, Tom Green	61 min
May 22, 6:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	McLennan	3 hr
May 22, 6:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Bell	32 min
May 22, 6:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bell	3 hr
May 22, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls, Hill, Limestone, McLennan	60 min
May 22, 6:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Bell, Falls, Milam	29 min
May 22, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Bell, Falls, Milam	54 min
May 22, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Delta, Hopkins, Hunt	54 min
May 22, 7:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Falls, Limestone	3 hr
May 22, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls, Limestone, Robertson	35 min
May 22, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone, Leon	66 min
May 22, 7:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Delta, Hopkins, Lamar	3 hr
May 22, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Delta, Hopkins, Lamar	48 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

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 188 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: 3323 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -89 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 714 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 155 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 3.1

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 10:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bowie, Red River	7 hr
May 22, 12:12 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Collin and 38 more	2 hr
May 22, 12:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Archer, Clay, Cooke, Fisher, Haskell, Jack and 10 more	7 hr
May 22, 2:03 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Lamar, Red River	87 min
May 22, 3:38 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Collin and 39 more	97 min
May 22, 4:47 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Marion, Morris and 2 more	118 min
May 22, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 15 more	6 hr
May 22, 6:08 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bell, Bosque, Brazos, Brown, Burleson, Burnet and 22 more	2 hr
May 22, 6:41 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Anderson, Bell, Brazos, Burleson, Burnet, Falls and 16 more	3 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.