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Tornado Watch 231

May 6, 202543 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 6, 2025, 8:13 AM CDT for 43 counties in Texas. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 6, 2025, 8:13 AM CDT (13:13 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2025, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 3 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

All 43 counties

Austin County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bell County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Colorado County, TX, Comal County, TX, Coryell County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Falls County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Fort Bend County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Harris County, TX, Hays County, TX, Houston County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Lee County, TX, Leon County, TX, Liberty County, TX, Llano County, TX, Madison County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Polk County, TX, Robertson County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, Travis County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Walker County, TX, Waller County, TX, Washington County, TX, Wharton County, TX, Williamson County, TX

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:13 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: 70%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 50%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 20%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 60%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 50%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 8:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Blanco, Burnet, Travis, Williamson	50 min
May 6, 9:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Travis, Williamson	52 min
May 6, 9:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Blanco, Gillespie, Kendall	41 min
May 6, 10:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Milam	48 min
May 6, 10:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Bell	3 hr
May 6, 10:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Bell, Falls, Milam, Robertson	57 min
May 6, 10:59 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Bell, Falls, Milam, Robertson	46 min
May 6, 11:29 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Travis, Williamson	3 hr
May 6, 11:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Falls, Limestone, Robertson	55 min
May 6, 11:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Blanco, Burnet, Gillespie, Hays, Kendall, Travis	16 min
May 6, 11:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Milam	60 min
May 6, 11:53 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Falls	3 hr
May 6, 12:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Williamson	26 min
May 6, 12:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Milam	41 min
May 6, 12:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Milam, Robertson	48 min
May 6, 12:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Milam	41 min
May 6, 12:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Freestone, Leon, Limestone, Robertson	54 min
May 6, 1:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Leon, Robertson	48 min
May 6, 1:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazos, Madison	32 min
May 6, 1:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HGX	Houston	36 min
May 6, 1:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Anderson, Freestone, Leon	54 min
May 6, 1:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazos, Houston, Madison, Walker	46 min
May 6, 2:01 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Milam, Robertson	3 hr
May 6, 2:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Lee, Williamson	3 hr
May 6, 2:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Houston, Trinity, Walker	24 min
May 6, 2:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Burleson	32 min
May 6, 2:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FWD	Leon	16 min
May 6, 2:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazos, Burleson	19 min
May 6, 2:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Houston, Madison, Trinity	34 min
May 6, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Houston, Trinity	30 min
May 6, 2:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazos, Grimes, Madison	38 min
May 6, 3:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazos, Burleson, Washington	28 min
May 6, 3:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HGX	Brazos, Burleson	59 min
May 6, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Houston, Trinity	31 min
May 6, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Washington	38 min
May 6, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gonzales, Lavaca	61 min
May 6, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Fayette	59 min
May 6, 4:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	HGX	Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Madison, Washington	2 hr
May 6, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Fayette, Gonzales, Lavaca	56 min
May 6, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Austin, Colorado, Washington	47 min
May 6, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Austin, Colorado	44 min
May 6, 5:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	HGX	Liberty	26 min
May 6, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Fayette, Lavaca	21 min
May 6, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	HGX	Austin, Colorado	34 min
May 6, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	HGX	Liberty	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

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 251 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 560 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 464 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 387 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -1.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 8:27 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crane, Crockett, Ector, Irion, Midland, Pecos and 5 more	2 hr
May 5, 8:57 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Andrews, Bandera, Crane, Crockett, Ector, Edwards and 23 more	9 hr
May 5, 11:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crane, Crockett, Loving, Pecos, Reeves, Terrell and 3 more	2 hr
May 6, 2:33 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Coke, Concho, Crane, Crockett, Edwards, Gillespie and 23 more	87 min
May 6, 3:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bandera, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet and 48 more	8 hr
May 6, 5:06 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho and 19 more	84 min
May 6, 6:11 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bandera, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Brazos and 27 more	3 hr
May 6, 7:55 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Comanche, Cooke, Denton, Eastland, Erath and 11 more	95 min
May 6, 9:17 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anderson, Bosque, Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis and 18 more	58 min
May 6, 9:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anderson, Bosque, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Collin and 30 more	6 hr
May 6, 10:50 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Austin, Bastrop, Bell, Brazos, Burleson, Caldwell and 20 more	85 min
May 6, 1:19 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Angelina, Hardin, Jasper, Nacogdoches, Newton, Sabine and 3 more	86 min
May 6, 1:36 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Angelina, Cherokee, Gregg, Hardin, Harrison, Jasper and 11 more	8 hr
May 6, 2:15 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Deaf Smith, Gaines, Hale and 7 more	90 min
May 6, 3:48 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Angelina, Austin, Brazos, Burleson, Colorado, Fayette and 25 more	87 min
May 6, 6:01 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Hardin, Jasper, Newton, Orange	119 min

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.