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Tornado Watch 295

May 23, 202411 counties in Oklahoma; 26 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 23, 2024, 4:30 PM CDT for 11 counties in Oklahoma; 26 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 23, 2024, 4:30 PM CDT (21:30 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2024, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 3.5 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 37 counties

Beckham County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Custer County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK, Baylor County, TX, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Concho County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Foard County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Jones County, TX, Knox County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Wheeler County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:29 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: 30%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 20%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 50%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 50%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 70%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Tom Green	45 min
May 23, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth	57 min
May 23, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Collingsworth, Wheeler	53 min
May 23, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham, Greer, Roger Mills	50 min
May 23, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Harmon	46 min
May 23, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	SJT	Tom Green	52 min
May 23, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Fisher, Haskell, Jones	43 min
May 23, 5:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Tom Green	116 min
May 23, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Nolan, Runnels, Taylor	41 min
May 23, 5:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Greer, Harmon	41 min
May 23, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Knox	39 min
May 23, 5:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Fisher, Jones	23 min
May 23, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Beckham	46 min
May 23, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho, Tom Green	60 min
May 23, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Greer, Harmon, Jackson	24 min
May 23, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Dewey, Ellis, Roger Mills	45 min
May 23, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Fisher, Haskell, Jones	44 min
May 23, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Foard, Knox	23 min
May 23, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Greer, Harmon, Jackson	47 min
May 23, 6:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Beckham	27 min
May 23, 6:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Harmon	25 min
May 23, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Beckham, Greer, Harmon	52 min
May 23, 6:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Jones	35 min
May 23, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Beckham, Washita	46 min
May 23, 6:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Fisher, Jones	119 min
May 23, 6:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Concho, Menard	41 min
May 23, 6:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Harmon, Jackson	48 min
May 23, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Jones, Shackelford	46 min
May 23, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Greer, Harmon, Jackson	46 min
May 23, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Beckham, Greer, Kiowa, Washita	20 min
May 23, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho, McCulloch, Menard	53 min
May 23, 7:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	OUN	Harmon, Jackson	49 min
May 23, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Greer, Jackson	50 min
May 23, 7:28 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Greer, Harmon, Jackson	4 hr
May 23, 7:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	OUN	Greer, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman	39 min
May 23, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Mason, Menard	66 min
May 23, 8:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Greer, Harmon, Jackson	44 min
May 23, 8:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Greer, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman	52 min
May 23, 8:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OUN	Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman	31 min
May 23, 8:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OUN	Greer, Harmon, Jackson	7 hr
May 23, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Greer, Harmon, Jackson	49 min
May 23, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Jackson, Tillman	50 min
May 23, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	OUN	Jackson	38 min
May 23, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	Comanche, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman	49 min
May 23, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Jackson, Tillman	38 min
May 23, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Comanche, Kiowa	50 min
May 23, 9:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Comanche, Kiowa	57 min
May 23, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Caddo, Comanche, Grady, Stephens	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

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 232 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: 2623 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 509 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 225 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.9
Supercell composite: 15.1

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 2:07 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal and 16 more	113 min
May 23, 2:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beaver, Beckham, Ellis, Harmon, Harper, Roger Mills	53 min
May 23, 6:00 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beckham, Custer, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa and 2 more	90 min
May 22, 7:24 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bowie, Camp, Cass, Delta, Franklin, Gregg and 8 more	2 hr
May 22, 8:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Angelina, Cherokee, Houston, Nacogdoches, Polk, Sabine and 3 more	2 hr
May 23, 5:55 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Anderson, Falls, Freestone, Leon, Limestone, Milam and 1 more	3 hr

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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.