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Tornado Watch 291

May 22, 202422 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 22, 2024, 6:41 PM CDT for 22 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 22, 2024, 6:41 PM CDT (23:41 UTC)
Expired
May 22, 2024, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
2 in
Strongest gust expected
70 kt
All 22 counties

Anderson County, TX, Bell County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Falls County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Houston County, TX, Lee County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Madison County, TX, Milam County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Polk County, TX, Robertson County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Walker County, TX, Washington County, TX, Williamson County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
40%
Ten or more severe hail reports
40%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
90%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 22, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFalls, Hill, Limestone, McLennan60 min
May 22, 6:46 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDBell, Falls, Milam29 min
May 22, 6:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatFWDBell, Falls, Milam54 min
May 22, 7:11 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDFalls, Limestone3 hr
May 22, 7:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatFWDMilam, Robertson61 min
May 22, 7:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFalls, Limestone, Robertson35 min
May 22, 7:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatHGXBrazos, Burleson, Grimes, Madison34 min
May 22, 7:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFreestone, Leon66 min
May 22, 7:47 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDMilam, Robertson3 hr
May 22, 7:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatHGXBrazos, Grimes, Houston, Madison, Trinity, Walker62 min
May 22, 8:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson47 min
May 22, 8:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHouston, Madison, Trinity, Walker48 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 208 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2024-05-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3323 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2024-05-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 155 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 22, 10:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBowie, Red River7 hr
May 22, 12:12 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBosque, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Collin and 38 more2 hr
May 22, 12:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Bell, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coke and 45 more8 hr
May 22, 12:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArcher, Clay, Cooke, Fisher, Haskell, Jack and 10 more7 hr
May 22, 2:03 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLamar, Red River87 min
May 22, 3:38 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBosque, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Collin and 39 more97 min
May 22, 4:47 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Marion, Morris and 2 more118 min
May 22, 4:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAngelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 15 more6 hr
May 22, 6:08 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBell, Bosque, Brazos, Brown, Burleson, Burnet and 22 more2 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.