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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 36

February 23, 200526 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Feb 23, 2005, 2:10 PM CST for 26 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Feb 23, 2005, 2:10 PM CST (20:10 UTC)
Expired
Feb 23, 2005, 9:00 PM CST
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 26 counties

Bandera County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Comal County, TX, Concho County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Hays County, TX, Irion County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Llano County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Real County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Val Verde County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:11 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 23, 2:47 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCrockett43 min
Feb 23, 3:28 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCrockett47 min
Feb 23, 5:13 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTKimble62 min
Feb 23, 5:19 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKendall, Kerr56 min
Feb 23, 5:31 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXVal Verde59 min
Feb 23, 6:13 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGillespie, Kerr62 min
Feb 23, 6:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKendall62 min
Feb 23, 7:14 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXVal Verde61 min
Feb 23, 7:40 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXEdwards65 min
Feb 23, 8:06 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXVal Verde54 min
Feb 23, 8:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXEdwards60 min
Feb 23, 8:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXVal Verde67 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 237 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 2005-02-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 140 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 2005-02-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 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
140 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-215 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1454 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
113 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 22, 7:45 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArcher, Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 20 more60 min
Feb 22, 9:23 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCHardeman67 min
Feb 22, 9:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCHardeman5 hr
Feb 22, 10:52 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArcher, Bosque, Brown, Clay, Coleman, Collin and 30 more53 min
Feb 22, 11:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAnderson, Archer, Bosque, Camp, Cherokee, Clay and 48 more8 hr
Feb 23, 1:41 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Archer, Camp, Cherokee, Clay, Collin and 34 more2 hr
Feb 23, 7:50 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAngelina, Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Hardin, Harris and 18 more115 min
Feb 23, 10:35 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAngelina, Hardin, Jasper, Liberty, Montgomery, Newton and 7 more115 min
Feb 23, 1:19 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrown, Concho, Crockett, Irion, Kimble, Lampasas and 10 more116 min
Feb 23, 2:00 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, Fort Bend, Harris, Jackson and 5 more2 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.