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Tornado Watch 295

May 19, 202513 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 19, 2025, 2:03 PM CDT for 13 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 19, 2025, 2:03 PM CDT (19:03 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2025, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 4 in
Strongest gust expected: 60 kt

Counties Collin County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Denton County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Jack County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Montague County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:04 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: 60%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 20%
Ten or more severe hail reports: 90%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more: 80%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports: 95%

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 19, 2:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Montague	57 min
May 19, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack	47 min
May 19, 3:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Montague	63 min
May 19, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Grayson	16 min
May 19, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Montague, Wise	44 min
May 19, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Cooke, Montague	40 min
May 19, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Jack, Montague	54 min
May 19, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Cooke, Montague	65 min
May 19, 6:01 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FWD	Montague	3 hr
May 19, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Jack, Montague, Wise	57 min
May 19, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	FWD	Cooke, Montague, Wise	56 min
May 19, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Cooke, Grayson	47 min
May 19, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD	Grayson	26 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 64 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: 2312 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -190 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 629 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 279 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 382 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 9.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 18, 7:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Harper, Major, Woods and 1 more	119 min
May 19, 10:28 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Latimer, McCurtain, Pittsburg and 1 more	2 hr
May 19, 11:12 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Carter, Cleveland, Creek, Garvin, Hughes, Kay and 21 more	3 hr
May 19, 12:03 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 50 more	9 hr
May 19, 1:45 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bryan, Carter, Coal, Garvin, Jefferson, Johnston and 6 more	2 hr
May 19, 3:38 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Hughes, McIntosh and 9 more	2 hr
May 19, 4:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atoka, Bryan, Coal, Haskell, Hughes, Johnston and 8 more	93 min
May 19, 6:11 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Cherokee, Choctaw, Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore and 5 more	94 min
May 19, 6:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Haskell, Latimer, LeFlore, Sequoyah	90 min
May 19, 6:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coal and 11 more	7 hr
May 18, 8:20 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Hood, Johnson, Parker, Tarrant	55 min
May 18, 8:34 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Coleman, Runnels	56 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.