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Tornado Watch 167

April 24, 2025Beaver County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 32 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 24, 2025, 3:38 PM CDT for Beaver County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 32 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 24, 2025, 3:38 PM CDT (20:38 UTC)
Expired: Apr 24, 2025, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 4 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 34 counties

Beaver County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby 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, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Moore County, TX, Motley County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:38 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: 30%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 20%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 70%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 70%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 24, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Briscoe, Floyd, Swisher	55 min
Apr 24, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Briscoe, Floyd, Hall, Motley	53 min
Apr 24, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Floyd, Motley	66 min
Apr 24, 6:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Briscoe, Floyd, Hall, Motley	36 min
Apr 24, 6:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LUB	Briscoe, Floyd, Hall, Motley	33 min
Apr 24, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Ochiltree	31 min
Apr 24, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Carson, Hutchinson, Roberts	29 min
Apr 24, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson	26 min
Apr 24, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Floyd, Motley	53 min
Apr 24, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby	59 min
Apr 24, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	AMA	Hansford, Ochiltree	38 min
Apr 24, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson, Ochiltree, Roberts	66 min
Apr 24, 7:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Floyd, Motley	34 min
Apr 24, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Gray, Hutchinson, Roberts	32 min
Apr 24, 7:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Floyd, Motley	34 min
Apr 24, 7:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Crosby	34 min
Apr 24, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	AMA	Hansford, Ochiltree	47 min
Apr 24, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Beaver, Texas	45 min
Apr 24, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Beaver	39 min
Apr 24, 7:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Crosby	3 hr
Apr 24, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LUB	Garza, Lynn	39 min
Apr 24, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	AMA	Ochiltree, Roberts	40 min
Apr 24, 8:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Crosby, Garza	38 min
Apr 24, 8:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Dickens, Motley	47 min
Apr 24, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver, Texas	20 min
Apr 24, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Ochiltree	32 min
Apr 24, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Beaver	15 min
Apr 24, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent	65 min
Apr 24, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	AMA	Hemphill, Roberts	49 min
Apr 24, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson, Ochiltree, Roberts	38 min
Apr 24, 8:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LUB	Crosby, Garza, Kent	24 min
Apr 24, 8:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Motley	2 hr
Apr 24, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hansford, Sherman	34 min
Apr 24, 8:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Dickens, Motley	23 min
Apr 24, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Ochiltree	27 min
Apr 24, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby, Dickens	37 min
Apr 24, 9:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Roberts	38 min
Apr 24, 9:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Garza, Kent	35 min
Apr 24, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	AMA	Hemphill, Roberts	43 min
Apr 24, 9:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Roberts	26 min
Apr 24, 9:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LUB	Garza, Kent	3 hr
Apr 24, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson	43 min
Apr 24, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Hemphill	38 min
Apr 24, 9:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hemphill, Roberts	17 min
Apr 24, 9:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Crosby, Dickens, Garza, Kent	35 min
Apr 24, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hutchinson, Roberts	22 min
Apr 24, 9:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson	27 min
Apr 24, 9:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Hemphill, Roberts, Wheeler	51 min
Apr 24, 10:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson	37 min
Apr 24, 10:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	AMA	Hansford, Hutchinson	20 min
Apr 24, 10:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Garza, Kent	35 min
Apr 24, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Hutchinson, Roberts	47 min
Apr 24, 10:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Hutchinson	50 min
Apr 24, 10:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	AMA	Hemphill, Roberts, Wheeler	48 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 76 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: 813 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -215 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 984 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 264 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 440 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 23, 10:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Greer, Harmon, Jackson	2 hr
Apr 23, 11:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa, Tillman	6 hr
Apr 24, 2:10 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bryan, Carter, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Jefferson and 6 more	2 hr
Apr 24, 6:37 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Love	2 hr
Apr 24, 2:06 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beaver, Cimarron, Texas	114 min
Apr 24, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Alfalfa, Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Garfield and 7 more	7 hr
Apr 24, 5:11 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Harper, Woods	94 min
Apr 23, 7:45 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Cochran and 20 more	90 min
Apr 23, 9:33 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crockett, Schleicher, Sutton, Terrell, Val Verde	87 min
Apr 24, 10:29 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Callahan and 33 more	3 hr
Apr 24, 1:37 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Brewster, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 8 more	2 hr
Apr 24, 2:33 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Bell, Brazos, Burleson, Burnet, Cherokee and 17 more	117 min
Apr 24, 2:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anderson, Angelina, Bell, Brazos, Burleson, Burnet and 22 more	5 hr
Apr 24, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Brewster, Cochran, Crane, Crockett and 20 more	6 hr
Apr 24, 5:28 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Angelina, Austin, Brazos, Burleson, Cherokee, Fayette and 24 more	2 hr
Apr 24, 6:34 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Crosby, Dickens, Donley and 16 more	86 min
Apr 24, 6:56 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Brewster, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Glasscock and 4 more	94 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.