Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 838
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Oct 31, 2005, 11:25 AM CST for 60 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 31, 2005, 11:25 AM CST (17:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 31, 2005, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 60 counties
Anderson County, TX, Angelina County, TX, Atascosa County, TX, Austin County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bell County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Cass County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Colorado County, TX, Comal County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Falls County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Hays County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Houston County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Lee County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Llano County, TX, Madison County, TX, Marion County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Panola County, TX, Polk County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Rusk County, TX, San Augustine County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, Shelby County, TX, Smith County, TX, Travis County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Tyler County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Walker County, TX, Waller County, TX, Washington County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wilson County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:26 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
19 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 12:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coryell, Lampasas | 50 min |
| Oct 31, 12:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 51 min |
| Oct 31, 12:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 55 min |
| Oct 31, 12:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Burnet | 21 min |
| Oct 31, 12:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 59 min |
| Oct 31, 1:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cass, Morris | 26 min |
| Oct 31, 1:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 22 min |
| Oct 31, 1:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Marion, Upshur | 50 min |
| Oct 31, 1:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Williamson | 48 min |
| Oct 31, 1:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Milam | 64 min |
| Oct 31, 2:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall | 39 min |
| Oct 31, 2:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Blanco, Comal, Hays | 46 min |
| Oct 31, 2:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazos, Burleson | 40 min |
| Oct 31, 2:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazos, Burleson | 40 min |
| Oct 31, 2:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Cherokee, Nacogdoches, Rusk | 52 min |
| Oct 31, 2:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Washington | 51 min |
| Oct 31, 3:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop | 28 min |
| Oct 31, 3:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Austin | 51 min |
| Oct 31, 3:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Waller | 41 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 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 456 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 735 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 233 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 30, 11:48 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts, Wheeler | 117 min |
| Oct 31, 10:55 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Austin, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Brazos and 33 more | 65 min |
| Oct 31, 1:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | San Augustine, Shelby | 6 hr |
| Oct 31, 1:53 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Atascosa, Austin, Bastrop, Bell and 55 more | 97 min |
| Oct 31, 2:54 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend, Galveston and 16 more | 66 min |
| Oct 31, 3:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aransas, Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, DeWitt, Fort Bend and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 31, 5:26 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bee, Brooks, Cameron, Duval, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg and 9 more | 94 min |
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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.