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Tornado Watch 148

April 19, 20257 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 19, 2025, 5:18 PM CDT for 7 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 19, 2025, 5:18 PM CDT (22:18 UTC)
Expired: Apr 19, 2025, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 3 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

Counties Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Concho County, TX, Irion County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Tom Green County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 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: 10%
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: 90%

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
Apr 19, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Runnels	39 min
Apr 19, 5:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Coke, Nolan	3 hr
Apr 19, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion, Sterling, Tom Green	65 min
Apr 19, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Sterling, Tom Green	60 min
Apr 19, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Coke, Nolan, Runnels, Taylor	18 min
Apr 19, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Nolan, Runnels	53 min
Apr 19, 7:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Irion, Sterling, Tom Green	3 hr
Apr 19, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion, Sterling, Tom Green	61 min
Apr 19, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Nolan, Taylor	51 min
Apr 19, 7:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Irion	38 min
Apr 19, 7:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Coke, Nolan, Runnels, Taylor	56 min
Apr 19, 8:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Irion, Tom Green	46 min
Apr 19, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Irion, Sterling, Tom Green	58 min
Apr 19, 8:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Irion	46 min
Apr 19, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Runnels, Tom Green	52 min
Apr 19, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Coke, Irion, Sterling, Tom Green	56 min
Apr 19, 9:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Coke, Tom Green	4 hr
Apr 19, 9:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Tom Green	25 min
Apr 19, 9:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Coke, Runnels, Tom Green	66 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 166 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3072 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 80 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 18, 8:04 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Childress, Clay, Collingsworth, Cooke and 8 more	86 min
Apr 18, 9:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Haskell, Jack and 9 more	6 hr
Apr 18, 9:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Foard, Hardeman	4 hr
Apr 18, 11:45 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 12 more	90 min
Apr 19, 12:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 21 more	6 hr
Apr 19, 2:21 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Concho, Eastland and 12 more	114 min
Apr 19, 1:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 45 more	92 min
Apr 19, 2:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Clay, Coke and 50 more	8 hr
Apr 19, 4:21 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Coke, Glasscock, Irion, Jones, Mitchell, Nolan and 5 more	54 min
Apr 19, 6:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Delta, Denton, Fannin and 10 more	91 min
Apr 19, 6:47 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Comanche, Cooke, Denton, Eastland, Erath, Grayson and 7 more	5 hr

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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.