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Tornado Watch 31

March 10, 202633 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 10, 2026, 3:13 PM CDT for 33 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 10, 2026, 3:13 PM CDT (20:13 UTC)
Expired: Mar 10, 2026, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected: 4 in
Strongest gust expected: 70 kt

All 33 counties

Bandera County, TX, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Concho County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Llano County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Real County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Val Verde County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 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: 60%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes: 40%
Ten or more severe wind reports: 60%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more: 40%
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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 10, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Crockett	45 min
Mar 10, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan, Jones, Nolan, Runnels, Shackelford, Taylor	49 min
Mar 10, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Val Verde	60 min
Mar 10, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett, Schleicher	59 min
Mar 10, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	SJT	Callahan, Jones, Shackelford, Taylor	55 min
Mar 10, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell, Jones, Shackelford, Throckmorton	63 min
Mar 10, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	EWX	Edwards, Kinney, Val Verde	72 min
Mar 10, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett, Schleicher	57 min
Mar 10, 5:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	SJT	Callahan	48 min
Mar 10, 5:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Kinney, Val Verde	44 min
Mar 10, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Runnels, Tom Green	57 min
Mar 10, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Haskell, Throckmorton	41 min
Mar 10, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Val Verde	25 min
Mar 10, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Crockett, Sutton	63 min
Mar 10, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman, Runnels, Taylor	41 min
Mar 10, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	SJT	Callahan, Shackelford	67 min
Mar 10, 6:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Edwards, Kinney, Real, Uvalde	40 min
Mar 10, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Edwards, Kinney, Real, Uvalde	56 min
Mar 10, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan, Shackelford, Taylor	53 min
Mar 10, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Schleicher, Sutton	34 min
Mar 10, 6:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Bandera, Real, Uvalde	41 min
Mar 10, 6:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Callahan	34 min
Mar 10, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	EWX	Bandera, Real	57 min
Mar 10, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Bandera, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr	54 min
Mar 10, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards, Kinney, Val Verde	48 min
Mar 10, 8:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	EWX	Blanco, Kendall, Kerr	37 min
Mar 10, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Val Verde	55 min
Mar 10, 8:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Kendall, Kerr	13 min
Mar 10, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards, Val Verde	21 min
Mar 10, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards, Kinney, Val Verde	32 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 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 250 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: 661 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -270 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1086 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 226 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 254 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 10, 1:35 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett and 29 more	115 min
Mar 10, 3:34 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Hemphill, Lipscomb, Roberts	116 min
Mar 10, 4:32 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Archer, Clay, Cooke, Denton, Eastland, Erath and 10 more	2 hr
Mar 10, 5:01 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Archer, Baylor, Clay, Comanche, Cooke, Denton and 16 more	6 hr
Mar 10, 6:24 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Concho, Eastland and 18 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.