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Tornado Watch 151

April 19, 202518 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 19, 2025, 10:01 PM CDT for 18 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 19, 2025, 10:01 PM CDT (03:01 UTC)
Expired: Apr 20, 2025, 4:48 AM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 2 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

Counties Brown County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Concho County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Irion County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Llano County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Val Verde County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:02 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: 30%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 20%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 50%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 20%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 50%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 50%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 80%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 19, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Coleman, Runnels	65 min
Apr 19, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Crockett	64 min
Apr 19, 10:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	SJT	Coke, Irion, Sterling, Tom Green	66 min
Apr 19, 11:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	SJT	Irion	39 min
Apr 19, 11:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Crockett, Schleicher, Sutton	53 min
Apr 19, 11:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown, Callahan, Coleman	50 min
Apr 19, 11:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Irion, Tom Green	24 min
Apr 19, 11:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Brown, Callahan, Coleman	36 min
Apr 19, 11:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho, Irion, Menard, Runnels, Schleicher, Tom Green	52 min
Apr 20, 12:07 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Brown, Coleman	3 hr
Apr 20, 12:11 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Tom Green	2 hr
Apr 20, 12:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman, Concho, McCulloch, Runnels, Tom Green	59 min
Apr 20, 1:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Brown, Coleman	65 min
Apr 20, 2:27 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Kerr, Real	19 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

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 164 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: 1503 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -105 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1426 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 245 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 6.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

321 
WWUS20 KWNS 200300
SEL1  
SPC WW 200300
TXZ000-201000-

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Tornado Watch Number 151
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
1000 PM CDT Sat Apr 19 2025

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Tornado Watch for portions of 
  Southwest into Central Texas

* Effective this Saturday night and Sunday morning from 1000 PM
  until 500 AM CDT.

* Primary threats include...
  A couple tornadoes possible
  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2
    inches in diameter possible
  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

SUMMARY...A band of thunderstorms is forecast to intensify and move
from west to east across the Watch area tonight.  The warm sector
environment will support the possibility for a couple of tornadoes,
in addition to large hail and severe gusts with the stronger storms.

The tornado watch area is approximately along and 60 statute miles
north and south of a line from 95 miles southwest of San Angelo TX
to 80 miles east northeast of Junction TX. For a complete depiction
of the watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS
WOU1).

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

REMEMBER...A Tornado Watch means conditions are favorable for
tornadoes and 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.

&&

OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 147...WW 148...WW
149...WW 150...

AVIATION...Tornadoes and 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 26035.

...Smith

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 19, 7:11 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 16 more	94 min
Apr 19, 7:35 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cooke, Montague	55 min
Apr 19, 8:27 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Comanche, Denton, Erath, Hood, Palo Pinto, Parker and 3 more	93 min
Apr 19, 9:01 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cooke, Montague	89 min
Apr 19, 9:20 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Concho, Irion, Runnels, Tom Green	55 min
Apr 19, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Borden, Callahan, Coke, Crosby and 28 more	5 hr
Apr 19, 10:10 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Hood, Parker, Wise	65 min
Apr 19, 11:33 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bosque, Collin, Comanche, Cooke, Dallas, Denton and 15 more	6 hr
Apr 19, 11:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Concho, Kimble, McCulloch, Mason, Menard, San Saba and 3 more	92 min
Apr 20, 2:01 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Coleman, Comanche, Eastland, Erath, Hamilton and 9 more	119 min
Apr 20, 12:03 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bowie, Cass, Harrison, Marion, Red River	9 hr
Apr 20, 12:17 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bowie, Cass, Harrison, Marion, Morris, Titus	118 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.