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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 430
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 17, 2025, 6:08 PM CDT for 5 counties in Oklahoma; 16 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 17, 2025, 6:08 PM CDT (23:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2025, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 21 counties
Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Briscoe County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Foard County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, King County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:10 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
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- 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
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Motley | 50 min |
| Jun 17, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry | 40 min |
| Jun 17, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry | 38 min |
| Jun 17, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Motley | 48 min |
| Jun 17, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn | 45 min |
| Jun 17, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Garza, Lubbock, Lynn | 48 min |
| Jun 17, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Motley | 46 min |
| Jun 17, 8:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens | 2 hr |
| Jun 17, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Lubbock, Lynn | 48 min |
| Jun 17, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, King, Motley | 17 min |
| Jun 17, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Garza, Lubbock, Lynn | 45 min |
| Jun 17, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza, Kent | 47 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 295 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
- 201 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -593 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2021 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
715
WWUS20 KWNS 172304
SEL0
SPC WW 172304
OKZ000-TXZ000-180400-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 430
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
605 PM CDT Tue Jun 17 2025
The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of
Southwest Oklahoma
Texas South Plains into Northwest Texas
* Effective this Tuesday evening from 605 PM until 1100 PM CDT.
* Primary threats include...
Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2
inches in diameter possible
Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible
SUMMARY...Thunderstorm development is anticipated across the Texas
South Plains this afternoon. High storm bases and a deeply mixed
boundary layer suggest that some of these storms could produce
strong outflow capable of strong/severe gusts. Isolated hail is
possible as well, particularly with the early-stage development.
The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 45
statute miles north and south of a line from 15 miles west of
Lubbock TX to 40 miles east northeast of Altus OK. For a complete
depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update
(WOUS64 KWNS WOU0).
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
REMEMBER...A Severe Thunderstorm Watch means conditions are
favorable for severe thunderstorms in and close to the watch area.
Persons in these areas should be on the lookout for threatening
weather conditions and listen for later statements and possible
warnings. Severe thunderstorms can and occasionally do produce
tornadoes.
&&
OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 429...
AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to
2 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A
few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector
24035.
...MosierSPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 4:06 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Osage | 114 min |
| Jun 17, 4:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Creek, Garfield, Grant, Kay, Kingfisher, Lincoln and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 17, 7:52 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Creek, Hughes, McIntosh, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Pittsburg | 113 min |
| Jun 17, 1:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Beaver, Ellis, Grant, Harper, Kay and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 17, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Custer, Dewey and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 17, 5:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Harmon | 2 hr |
| Jun 17, 6:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver | 55 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.