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Tornado Watch 296
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 23, 2024, 5:55 PM CDT for 7 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 2024, 5:55 PM CDT (22:55 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2024, 8:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Anderson County, TX, Falls County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Milam County, TX, Robertson County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 40%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Falls | 48 min |
| May 23, 6:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Falls, Limestone, Robertson | 38 min |
| May 23, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson, Henderson | 22 min |
| May 23, 7:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Leon, Limestone, Robertson | 46 min |
| May 23, 7:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Leon, Robertson | 42 min |
| May 23, 8:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Leon | 14 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 173 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.
- 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
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 2:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Childress, Coke, Collingsworth, Cottle, Dickens, Donley and 19 more | 53 min |
| May 23, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Collingsworth and 20 more | 7 hr |
| May 23, 6:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Concho, Foard and 15 more | 90 min |
Nearby
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.