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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 368

June 1, 200528 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 1, 2005, 12:40 AM CDT for 28 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 1, 2005, 12:40 AM CDT (05:40 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2005, 7:00 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 28 counties

Atascosa County, TX, Bandera County, TX, Bee County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Comal County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Dimmit County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Frio County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Goliad County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, La Salle County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Medina County, TX, Real County, TX, Travis County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Wilson County, TX, Zavala County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:43 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 1:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards, Kerr	60 min
Jun 1, 1:34 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Edwards	41 min
Jun 1, 1:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Gillespie, Llano	61 min
Jun 1, 1:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kerr	66 min
Jun 1, 1:58 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Real	32 min
Jun 1, 2:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bandera	60 min
Jun 1, 2:26 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Bandera, Kerr, Real	34 min
Jun 1, 2:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Kendall	58 min
Jun 1, 2:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Blanco, Burnet, Gillespie, Llano	67 min
Jun 1, 2:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bandera, Kerr, Real	62 min
Jun 1, 2:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards	67 min
Jun 1, 3:01 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Bexar, Comal, Kendall	29 min
Jun 1, 3:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bandera, Medina	58 min
Jun 1, 3:25 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bandera, Edwards, Kendall, Kerr, Real	3 hr
Jun 1, 3:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Edwards, Real	65 min
Jun 1, 3:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Bexar, Comal	63 min
Jun 1, 3:39 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Medina	36 min
Jun 1, 3:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Uvalde	53 min
Jun 1, 3:54 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Bexar, Guadalupe, Medina	2 hr
Jun 1, 4:03 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	DeWitt, Fayette, Gonzales, Karnes, Lavaca	4 hr
Jun 1, 4:05 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	EWX	Comal	115 min
Jun 1, 4:11 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Medina	34 min
Jun 1, 5:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Karnes	64 min
Jun 1, 5:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	Bee, Goliad, Live Oak, Victoria	57 min
Jun 1, 5:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Uvalde, Zavala	53 min
Jun 1, 5:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CRP	McMullen	25 min
Jun 1, 6:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Zavala	39 min
Jun 1, 6:32 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	EWX	Zavala	23 min
Jun 1, 6:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	EWX	Frio	43 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

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 223 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: 3659 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1496 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.1
Supercell composite: -0.7

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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, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Archer, Bosque, Clay, Comanche, Eastland, Erath and 10 more	7 hr
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, 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

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.