Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 53
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 19, 2005, 1:40 PM CST for 21 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 2005, 1:40 PM CST (19:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2005, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 21 counties
Bandera County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Comal County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Lee County, TX, Medina County, TX, Milam County, TX, Real County, TX, Travis County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Williamson County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:42 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
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 1:49 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Real | 116 min |
| Mar 19, 3:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Caldwell | 65 min |
| Mar 19, 4:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 65 min |
| Mar 19, 4:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Travis | 67 min |
| Mar 19, 4:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Milam | 64 min |
| Mar 19, 5:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Guadalupe | 48 min |
| Mar 19, 5:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 45 min |
| Mar 19, 6:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Lee | 44 min |
| Mar 19, 7:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bexar | 54 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 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1870 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 12:46 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Bandera, Bastrop, Blanco, Burleson, Burnet and 15 more | 119 min |
| Mar 19, 3:27 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Burleson, Caldwell and 15 more | 93 min |
| Mar 19, 4:38 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Atascosa, Austin, Bee, Brazos, Burleson and 32 more | 67 min |
| Mar 19, 5:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Angelina, Aransas, Austin, Bastrop, Bee, Brazoria and 38 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 19, 5:32 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange, Tyler | 118 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.