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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 37
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Feb 23, 2005, 8:15 PM CST for 17 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 23, 2005, 8:15 PM CST (02:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2005, 3:00 AM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Atascosa County, TX, Bandera County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Comal County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Frio County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Maverick County, TX, Medina County, TX, Real County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Val Verde County, TX, Zavala County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:17 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 8:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 60 min |
| Feb 23, 8:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 67 min |
| Feb 23, 10:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 34 min |
| Feb 23, 10:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 36 min |
| Feb 23, 11:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney | 46 min |
| Feb 24, 12:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Zavala | 62 min |
| Feb 24, 12:40 AM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Zavala | 50 min |
| Feb 24, 12:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Uvalde | 35 min |
| Feb 24, 1:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio, Zavala | 55 min |
| Feb 24, 1:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar, Medina | 58 min |
| Feb 24, 2:08 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Atascosa, Frio | 71 min |
| Feb 24, 3:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Zavala | 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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 1603 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1537 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.1
- Supercell composite
- -2.4
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 6:46 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Gaines, Yoakum | 119 min |
| Feb 23, 7:36 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Bell, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell, Comal and 26 more | 84 min |
| Feb 23, 11:12 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett, Irion and 13 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 23, 11:37 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Comal, Dimmit and 12 more | 113 min |
| Feb 24, 1:47 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Bee, Blanco, Caldwell, DeWitt, Edwards and 19 more | 88 min |
| Feb 24, 2:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Bee, Bexar, DeWitt, Goliad, Karnes and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 24, 4:12 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aransas, Atascosa, Bee, Brazoria, Calhoun, DeWitt and 11 more | 93 min |
| Feb 24, 4:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brazoria, Calhoun, Jackson, Matagorda, Wharton | 5 hr |
| Feb 24, 7:04 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bee, Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, DeWitt, Fort Bend and 10 more | 86 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.