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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 616
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 6, 2005, 11:45 PM CDT for 33 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 2005, 11:45 PM CDT (04:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2005, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 33 counties
Andrews County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Borden County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Howard County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Motley County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:45 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
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 11:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 62 min |
| Jul 7, 12:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 61 min |
| Jul 7, 12:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 57 min |
| Jul 7, 2:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Motley | 55 min |
| Jul 7, 2:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey | 44 min |
| Jul 7, 2:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 53 min |
| Jul 7, 2:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle | 63 min |
| Jul 7, 3:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 59 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 829 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2837 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress, Collingsworth and 20 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 6, 9:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Collingsworth and 24 more | 37 min |
| Jul 6, 11:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Armstrong, Borden, Briscoe, Carson, Castro and 34 more | 92 min |
| 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 |
| Jul 7, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bailey, Cochran, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hartley, Oldham and 1 more | 5 hr |
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.