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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 32

February 22, 2005Bryan County, Love County, Marshall County, Oklahoma; 46 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Feb 22, 2005, 5:55 PM CST for Bryan County, Love County, Marshall County, Oklahoma; 46 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Feb 22, 2005, 5:55 PM CST (23:55 UTC)
Expired
Feb 23, 2005, 12:00 AM CST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 49 counties

Bryan County, OK, Love County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Clay County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Concho County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Jones County, TX, Knox County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Mills County, TX, Montague County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:56 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 22, 6:00 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTRunnels45 min
Feb 22, 6:23 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTConcho37 min
Feb 22, 6:23 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTaylor67 min
Feb 22, 6:42 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTColeman, Runnels48 min
Feb 22, 7:03 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTConcho27 min
Feb 22, 7:15 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningSJTTaylor2 hr
Feb 22, 7:22 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTJones, Taylor53 min
Feb 22, 7:23 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTColeman, McCulloch52 min
Feb 22, 7:25 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCallahan50 min
Feb 22, 7:30 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningSJTColeman2 hr
Feb 22, 7:42 PM CSTTornado WarningSJTColeman, Concho, McCulloch48 min
Feb 22, 7:59 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningSJTConcho, Runnels2 hr
Feb 22, 8:09 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTJones, Shackelford51 min
Feb 22, 8:22 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTHaskell, Throckmorton53 min
Feb 22, 8:38 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTColeman, Concho, Runnels52 min
Feb 22, 8:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKnox32 min
Feb 22, 9:12 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBaylor, Wilbarger48 min
Feb 22, 9:13 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTHaskell, Throckmorton47 min
Feb 22, 9:29 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningSJTColeman, Concho, Runnels4 hr
Feb 22, 9:48 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNArcher42 min
Feb 22, 9:56 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNWilbarger34 min
Feb 22, 10:12 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNArcher, Clay, Wichita48 min
Feb 22, 10:53 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningSJTBrown3 hr
Feb 22, 11:05 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTBrown40 min
Feb 22, 11:06 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin54 min
Feb 22, 11:50 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningFWDComanche3 hr
Feb 22, 11:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTBrown37 min
Feb 23, 12:00 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMills45 min
Feb 23, 12:00 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin60 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 314 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2005-02-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 66 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2005-02-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 177 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 22, 2:51 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBorden, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho and 23 more2 hr
Feb 22, 4:27 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArmstrong, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran and 33 more2 hr
Feb 22, 5:00 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBandera, Borden, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 37 more7 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.