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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 332

May 25, 200524 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 25, 2005, 2:45 PM CDT for 24 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 25, 2005, 2:45 PM CDT (19:45 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 2005, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 24 counties

Anderson County, TX, Angelina County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Houston County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Madison County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Rains County, TX, Rusk County, TX, San Augustine County, TX, Smith County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wood County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 2:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVWood42 min
May 25, 2:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson62 min
May 25, 3:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis, Navarro59 min
May 25, 3:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVSmith63 min
May 25, 3:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson, Freestone80 min
May 25, 4:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHVCherokee59 min
May 25, 4:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson27 min
May 25, 5:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHouston, Trinity57 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

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 166 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, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2005-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 148 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, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2005-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 44 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
148 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-292 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
844 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 7:17 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBowie, Cass118 min
May 24, 10:28 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLipscomb, Ochiltree2 hr
May 24, 11:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCHansford, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts6 hr
May 25, 12:42 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCHansford, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts93 min
May 25, 3:39 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCHansford, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts66 min
May 25, 7:51 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArcher, Baylor, Childress, Clay, Collingsworth, Foard and 8 more84 min
May 25, 9:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAnderson, Angelina, Archer, Camp, Cass, Cherokee and 41 more7 hr
May 25, 12:14 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Archer, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Clay and 39 more91 min
May 25, 1:59 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBell, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Callahan, Coke and 23 more91 min
May 25, 3:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAndrews, Bell, Borden, Bosque, Brown, Callahan and 38 more7 hr
May 25, 4:56 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAngelina, Cherokee, Grimes, Houston, Leon, Madison and 8 more94 min

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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.