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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 352

May 29, 200511 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 29, 2005, 5:30 PM CDT for 11 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 29, 2005, 5:30 PM CDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2005, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Brooks County, TX, Duval County, TX, Hidalgo County, TX, Jim Hogg County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX, Kenedy County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Nueces County, TX, San Patricio County, TX, Starr County, TX, Willacy County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 5:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	CRP	Kleberg	40 min
May 29, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Kleberg	59 min
May 29, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Jim Wells, Live Oak	53 min
May 29, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Kenedy	32 min
May 29, 6:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BRO	Kenedy	21 min
May 29, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Kenedy	43 min
May 29, 7:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BRO	Kenedy	85 min
May 29, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Kenedy	51 min
May 29, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Brooks	47 min
May 29, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Kenedy	33 min
May 29, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Nueces	60 min
May 29, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Duval	39 min
May 29, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Jim Wells	48 min
May 29, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Kenedy	45 min
May 29, 9:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BRO	Kenedy	12 min
May 29, 9:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Duval	38 min
May 29, 10:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Jim Wells	41 min
May 29, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Nueces	64 min
May 29, 10:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	San Patricio	54 min
May 29, 10:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Kleberg	67 min
May 29, 11:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Starr	39 min
May 29, 11:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Duval	57 min
May 29, 11:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BRO	Starr	30 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

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 125 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: 1569 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -182 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 787 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 149 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 210 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.8

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anderson, Bell, Burnet, Cherokee, Concho, Coryell and 19 more	5 hr
May 28, 8:19 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Dimmit, Frio, Kendall and 7 more	86 min
May 28, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Comal, Dimmit and 10 more	4 hr
May 28, 10:08 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atascosa, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell and 11 more	97 min
May 28, 11:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Atascosa, Bastrop, Bee, Bexar, Blanco, Caldwell and 15 more	5 hr
May 29, 12:57 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aransas, Atascosa, Austin, Bastrop, Bee, Bexar and 46 more	93 min
May 29, 1:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Austin, Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend and 10 more	4 hr
May 29, 4:12 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Austin, Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend and 10 more	2 hr
May 29, 11:47 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aransas, Bee, Brazoria, Calhoun, Colorado, DeWitt and 13 more	58 min
May 29, 12:56 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hartley, Oldham	2 hr
May 29, 1:42 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aransas, Bee, Brazoria, Calhoun, Colorado, DeWitt and 13 more	93 min
May 29, 2:20 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Atascosa, Austin, Bastrop, Bee, Bexar, Brazoria and 41 more	9 hr
May 29, 3:48 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bell, Bosque, Burnet, Comanche, Coryell, Ellis and 18 more	87 min
May 29, 4:40 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Burnet, Comanche, Coryell and 20 more	95 min
May 29, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Angelina, Hardin, Jasper, Nacogdoches, Newton, Polk and 6 more	7 hr
May 29, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anderson, Bell, Blanco, Burnet, Coryell, Falls and 9 more	6 hr
May 29, 6:20 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Angelina, Hardin, Jasper, Nacogdoches, Newton, Polk and 6 more	85 min
May 29, 6:42 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atascosa, Austin, Bastrop, Bee, Bexar, Brazoria and 39 more	93 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.