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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 101
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 12, 2026, 1:02 AM CDT for 29 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 12, 2026, 1:02 AM CDT (06:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 12, 2026, 7:03 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 29 counties
Bandera County, TX, Bell County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Erath County, TX, Falls County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hays County, TX, Hood County, TX, Jack County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Llano County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Mills County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Travis County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:01 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
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 10%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 5%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 50%
Warnings issued inside it
1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 1:15 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Eastland, Stephens | 10 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 10:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Coleman, Concho, Edwards, Kerr, Kimble and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 11, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Edwards, Kimble, Kinney, Mason, Menard and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 11, 11:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Coleman, Comanche, Eastland, Edwards, Erath and 11 more | 83 min |
| Apr 12, 2:14 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Bosque, Burnet, Coryell, Erath, Hamilton and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 12, 12:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Colorado, DeWitt, Fayette, Gonzales, Lavaca and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 12, 2:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Bosque, Burnet, Comanche, Coryell, Hamilton and 6 more | 116 min |
| Apr 12, 3:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Briscoe, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens and 8 more | 2 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.