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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 83

March 25, 200530 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 25, 2005, 8:20 PM CST for 30 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Mar 25, 2005, 8:20 PM CST (02:20 UTC)
Expired
Mar 26, 2005, 2:00 AM CST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 30 counties

Angelina County, TX, Austin County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bell County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Comal County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Harris County, TX, Hays County, TX, Houston County, TX, Lee County, TX, Liberty County, TX, Madison County, TX, Milam County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Polk County, TX, Robertson County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, Travis County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Walker County, TX, Waller County, TX, Washington County, TX, Williamson County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 25, 8:40 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBurnet, Hays, Travis65 min
Mar 25, 9:40 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBastrop, Lee65 min
Mar 25, 9:41 PM CSTTornado WarningEWXTravis34 min
Mar 25, 9:57 PM CSTTornado WarningEWXBastrop33 min
Mar 25, 10:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXBurleson, Washington45 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

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 265 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2005-03-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2005-03-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 87 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1649 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
242 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 25, 8:02 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Bell, Bosque, Brazos, Brown, Burleson and 51 more118 min
Mar 25, 10:25 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAustin, Brazos, Burleson, Fayette, Grimes, Houston and 12 more95 min
Mar 26, 12:56 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBandera, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown and 48 more94 min
Mar 26, 1:25 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBandera, Borden, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 35 more7 hr
Mar 26, 4:20 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBandera, Blanco, Borden, Brown, Callahan, Coke and 45 more115 min
Mar 26, 6:12 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBandera, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet and 42 more63 min
Mar 26, 6:40 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAnderson, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Burnet, Concho and 30 more7 hr
Mar 26, 10:05 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Angelina, Atascosa, Austin, Bastrop, Bell and 42 more115 min
Mar 26, 12:42 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLoving2 hr
Mar 26, 4:42 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBowie, Camp, Cass, Marion, Morris, Red River and 1 more2 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.