Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 832
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Oct 9, 2005, 3:25 PM CDT for 24 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 9, 2005, 3:25 PM CDT (20:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 9, 2005, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 24 counties
Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Brewster County, TX, Crane County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Presidio County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 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
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 9, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Pecos, Ward | 62 min |
| Oct 9, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Winkler | 59 min |
| Oct 9, 4:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Crane | 66 min |
| Oct 9, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 62 min |
| Oct 9, 5:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector, Midland | 3 hr |
| Oct 9, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 53 min |
| Oct 9, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion, Sterling, Tom Green | 40 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 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 61 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
- 1789 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 9, 2:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crane, Ector, Jeff Davis, Loving, Reeves, Ward and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Oct 9, 5:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Bandera, Blanco, Borden, Brewster, Brown and 44 more | 93 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.