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Tornado Watch 344

May 28, 202424 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 28, 2024, 1:44 PM CDT for 24 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 28, 2024, 1:44 PM CDT (18:44 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2024, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 3 in
Strongest gust expected: 65 kt

All 24 counties

Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:46 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: 50%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 20%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 60%
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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 2:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Terry	53 min
May 28, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Bailey	66 min
May 28, 2:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Cochran, Hockley, Terry, Yoakum	28 min
May 28, 3:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Lynn, Terry	66 min
May 28, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Bailey, Lamb	67 min
May 28, 3:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Lynn	24 min
May 28, 3:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Bailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb	66 min
May 28, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Bailey, Lamb	49 min
May 28, 4:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Cochran, Hockley, Terry, Yoakum	57 min
May 28, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hockley, Lubbock	31 min
May 28, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Parmer	27 min
May 28, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Bailey, Lamb	20 min
May 28, 4:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Bailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb	2 hr
May 28, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Hockley, Terry	50 min
May 28, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Hockley, Lamb	64 min
May 28, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Bailey	39 min
May 28, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry	57 min
May 28, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Bailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb	48 min
May 28, 5:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Hale, Hockley, Lamb, Lubbock	27 min
May 28, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Lynn	63 min
May 28, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	LUB	Hockley	51 min
May 28, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Hale, Lubbock	32 min
May 28, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Bailey, Cochran, Hockley, Lamb	67 min
May 28, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Garza, Lynn	55 min
May 28, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn	45 min
May 28, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Stonewall	67 min
May 28, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Kent	46 min
May 28, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Lubbock, Lynn	50 min
May 28, 8:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Garza, Lynn	39 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 138 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: 1617 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -274 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1458 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 7:46 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Jim Hogg, Starr, Webb, Zapata	119 min
May 27, 8:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Brooks, Duval, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, La Salle, Starr and 2 more	4 hr
May 27, 9:28 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Collin, Dallas, Denton, Hood, Jack, Johnson and 5 more	92 min
May 27, 11:00 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brooks, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Starr, Webb, Zapata	60 min
May 27, 11:52 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Hardeman, Knox and 3 more	113 min
May 28, 12:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Archer, Clay, Collin, Cooke, Denton, Grayson and 6 more	6 hr
May 28, 1:49 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Montague, Wichita, Wilbarger	86 min
May 28, 3:25 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Denton, Ellis and 13 more	95 min
May 28, 4:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anderson, Bosque, Dallas, Ellis, Freestone, Henderson and 15 more	7 hr
May 28, 5:26 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Henderson, Kaufman, Navarro and 4 more	94 min
May 28, 5:55 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Clay, Jack, Montague, Wichita	65 min
May 28, 6:10 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Brazos, Burleson, Cherokee, Dallas and 27 more	95 min
May 28, 7:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Angelina, Cherokee, Gregg, Nacogdoches, Panola, Rusk and 6 more	7 hr
May 28, 8:43 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Coryell and 20 more	62 min
May 28, 9:00 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Angelina, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Nacogdoches, Panola and 5 more	90 min
May 28, 10:49 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Austin, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Brazos, Burleson and 36 more	116 min
May 28, 11:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Austin, Bastrop, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers and 27 more	6 hr
May 28, 12:01 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Jasper, Newton, Orange, Sabine	89 min
May 28, 12:19 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chambers, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty, Montgomery and 6 more	86 min
May 28, 1:32 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crane, Crockett, Ector, Glasscock, Irion, Loving and 8 more	88 min
May 28, 1:40 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Cottle, Crosby and 15 more	95 min
May 28, 1:56 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley and 14 more	94 min
May 28, 1:59 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aransas, Atascosa, Bandera, Bee, Bexar, Calhoun and 16 more	2 hr
May 28, 2:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Coke, Crane, Crockett, Dawson and 22 more	7 hr
May 28, 2:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Armstrong, Carson, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hansford, Hartley and 6 more	7 hr
May 28, 3:36 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Coke, Crane, Crockett, Ector, Glasscock and 17 more	54 min
May 28, 3:49 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dimmit, Kinney, Maverick, Zavala	86 min
May 28, 4:00 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Cottle, Crosby and 17 more	90 min
May 28, 6:05 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Carson, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hansford, Hartley and 6 more	115 min
May 28, 6:15 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crockett, Sutton, Terrell, Val Verde	90 min

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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.