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Tornado Watch 307
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 25, 2024, 2:17 PM CDT for 29 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 2024, 2:17 PM CDT (19:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2024, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 4 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 29 counties
Bosque County, TX, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Concho County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Hood County, TX, Jack County, TX, Jones County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Mills County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 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
- 20%
- 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
17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell, Throckmorton | 34 min |
| May 25, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Coleman, Nolan, Runnels, Taylor | 53 min |
| May 25, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Throckmorton | 64 min |
| May 25, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Coleman, Runnels, Taylor | 58 min |
| May 25, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell, Jones, Throckmorton | 50 min |
| May 25, 3:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Callahan, Coleman, Runnels, Taylor | 33 min |
| May 25, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 41 min |
| May 25, 4:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Callahan, Coleman, Taylor | 31 min |
| May 25, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown, Callahan, Coleman | 61 min |
| May 25, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Eastland | 61 min |
| May 25, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan | 22 min |
| May 25, 5:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Callahan | 15 min |
| May 25, 5:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Eastland | 39 min |
| May 25, 6:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Comanche, Eastland | 32 min |
| May 25, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Erath | 45 min |
| May 25, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Eastland | 49 min |
| May 25, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke, Jack, Montague, Wise | 65 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 2118 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 947 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.9
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 9:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Franklin and 16 more | 118 min |
| May 25, 1:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baylor, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Fisher and 19 more | 94 min |
| May 25, 2:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Childress, Clay, Cottle, Foard and 6 more | 4 hr |
| May 25, 3:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Collin, Cooke, Delta and 10 more | 11 hr |
| May 25, 5:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Grayson, Montague and 2 more | 95 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.