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Tornado Watch 374
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 2, 2024, 2:53 PM CDT for Beaver County, Cimarron County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 40 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 2024, 2:53 PM CDT (19:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2024, 10:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 3 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 43 counties
Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Garza County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Moore County, TX, Motley County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:51 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
- 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
19 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter, Randall | 53 min |
| Jun 2, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson, Moore | 68 min |
| Jun 2, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Randall | 65 min |
| Jun 2, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter, Randall | 58 min |
| Jun 2, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Moore, Potter | 46 min |
| Jun 2, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Swisher | 38 min |
| Jun 2, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Gray, Potter, Randall | 66 min |
| Jun 2, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Hutchinson, Moore, Roberts | 65 min |
| Jun 2, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Randall | 63 min |
| Jun 2, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Swisher | 63 min |
| Jun 2, 7:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | AMA | Hutchinson, Moore | 34 min |
| Jun 2, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong, Carson, Potter | 39 min |
| Jun 2, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Floyd, Motley | 39 min |
| Jun 2, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 65 min |
| Jun 2, 7:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 33 min |
| Jun 2, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Gray, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Roberts, Wheeler | 65 min |
| Jun 2, 8:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 37 min |
| Jun 2, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall | 60 min |
| Jun 2, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 11 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 45 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
- 2524 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 532 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 9.9
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 7:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Beaver, Dewey, Ellis, Harper, Major and 4 more | 85 min |
| Jun 1, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beaver, Dewey, Ellis, Harper, Major and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 1, 8:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Cimarron, Texas | 90 min |
| Jun 1, 11:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Major and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 2, 10:40 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Jefferson and 3 more | 95 min |
| Jun 2, 11:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 15 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 2, 1:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Garvin and 10 more | 83 min |
| Jun 2, 2:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cimarron, Texas | 92 min |
| Jun 2, 3:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Choctaw, McCurtain, Pushmataha | 2 hr |
| Jun 2, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | McCurtain | 7 hr |
| Jun 2, 6:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Beckham, Ellis, Greer, Harmon, Jackson and 1 more | 113 min |
| Jun 1, 10:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Edwards, Frio, Kinney, Maverick, Medina, Real and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 1, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Edwards, Kinney, Maverick, Real, Uvalde, Val Verde and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 5:46 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gray, Roberts | 59 min |
| Jun 2, 11:58 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Carson, Castro and 30 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 2, 2:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Callahan, Comanche, Dallas, Delta, Eastland, Ellis and 21 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 2, 3:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brewster, Coke, Crane, Crockett, Ector, Glasscock and 15 more | 89 min |
| Jun 2, 3:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Bell, Bosque, Brazos, Cherokee and 27 more | 90 min |
| Jun 2, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Borden, Brewster, Crane, Crockett, Dawson, Glasscock and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 2, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Coryell, Falls, Freestone and 11 more | 6 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.