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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 615
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 6, 2005, 7:25 PM CDT for Ellis County, Oklahoma; 26 counties in Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 2005, 7:25 PM CDT (00:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2005, 11:41 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 27 counties
Ellis County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Motley County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:25 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.
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 282 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
- 1722 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1307 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 9:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cimarron | 37 min |
| Jul 7, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cimarron | 5 hr |
| Jul 6, 11:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Armstrong, Borden, Briscoe, Carson, Castro and 34 more | 92 min |
| Jul 6, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran and 27 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 7, 2:40 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Castro, Childress and 32 more | 65 min |
| Jul 7, 4:03 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Archer, Bailey, Baylor, Borden, Briscoe and 38 more | 57 min |
| Jul 7, 9:33 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bell, Brazos, Falls, Freestone, Grimes and 12 more | 117 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.