Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 31
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Feb 22, 2005, 5:00 PM CST for 43 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 22, 2005, 5:00 PM CST (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2005, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 43 counties
Bandera County, TX, Borden County, TX, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Concho County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Real County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Upton County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Val Verde County, TX, Zavala County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 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.
Warnings issued inside it
26 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 5:14 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 61 min |
| Feb 22, 5:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho, Runnels | 44 min |
| Feb 22, 5:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho, Runnels | 42 min |
| Feb 22, 5:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 45 min |
| Feb 22, 5:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Shackelford, Throckmorton | 27 min |
| Feb 22, 5:43 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Concho, Runnels | 2 hr |
| Feb 22, 6:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Runnels | 45 min |
| Feb 22, 6:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke | 54 min |
| Feb 22, 6:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho | 37 min |
| Feb 22, 6:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Taylor | 67 min |
| Feb 22, 6:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman, Runnels | 48 min |
| Feb 22, 7:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho | 27 min |
| Feb 22, 7:15 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Taylor | 2 hr |
| Feb 22, 7:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Jones, Taylor | 53 min |
| Feb 22, 7:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman, McCulloch | 52 min |
| Feb 22, 7:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan | 50 min |
| Feb 22, 7:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Coleman | 2 hr |
| Feb 22, 7:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Coleman, Concho, McCulloch | 48 min |
| Feb 22, 7:59 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Concho, Runnels | 2 hr |
| Feb 22, 8:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Jones, Shackelford | 51 min |
| Feb 22, 8:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman, Concho, Runnels | 52 min |
| Feb 22, 9:29 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Coleman, Concho, Runnels | 4 hr |
| Feb 22, 10:53 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Brown | 3 hr |
| Feb 22, 11:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown | 40 min |
| Feb 22, 11:50 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Comanche | 3 hr |
| Feb 22, 11:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown | 37 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 200 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -365 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1455 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 2:51 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Borden, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho and 23 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 22, 4:27 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran and 33 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 22, 5:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Clay and 40 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2005Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2005
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.