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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 367
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 31, 2005, 9:55 PM CDT for 16 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 2005, 9:55 PM CDT (02:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2005, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Archer County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Clay County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Erath County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hood County, TX, Jack County, TX, Montague County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:58 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
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Montague | 67 min |
| May 31, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 62 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
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 1091 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1321 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 7:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Borden, Callahan, Coleman, Dawson, Fisher, Garza and 13 more | 7 hr |
| May 31, 9:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Coke, Coleman, Concho, McCulloch, Mason and 5 more | 5 hr |
| May 31, 9:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bosque, Comanche, Dallas, Denton, Eastland, Ellis and 12 more | 90 min |
| May 31, 9:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baylor, Clay, Foard, Knox, Wichita, Wilbarger | 57 min |
| May 31, 10:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Borden, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho and 25 more | 119 min |
| May 31, 11:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bosque, Comanche, Eastland, Erath, Hamilton, Hood and 7 more | 85 min |
| Jun 1, 12:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Bandera, Bee, Bexar, Blanco, Caldwell and 22 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 1, 1:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Comanche, Concho, Irion, McCulloch, Mason and 6 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 3:09 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aransas, Atascosa, Austin, Bandera, Bastrop, Bee and 64 more | 96 min |
| Jun 1, 5:17 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aransas, Atascosa, Bandera, Bee, Bexar, Blanco and 45 more | 88 min |
| Jun 1, 6:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brooks, Cameron, Duval, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 1, 9:46 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr, Willacy | 59 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.