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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 85
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 26, 2005, 6:40 AM CST for 36 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 26, 2005, 6:40 AM CST (12:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2005, 2:00 PM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 36 counties
Anderson County, TX, Bell County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Concho County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Falls County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Llano County, TX, Madison County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Menard County, TX, Milam County, TX, Mills County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Real County, TX, Robertson County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Williamson County, TX
Warnings issued inside it
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 6:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 67 min |
| Mar 26, 7:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 46 min |
| Mar 26, 9:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 54 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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 285 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
- 1739 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 545 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 6.8
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 8:02 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Brazos, Brown, Burleson and 51 more | 118 min |
| Mar 25, 8:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Angelina, Austin, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Brazos and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 25, 10:25 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Brazos, Burleson, Fayette, Grimes, Houston and 12 more | 95 min |
| Mar 26, 12:56 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown and 48 more | 94 min |
| Mar 26, 1:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bandera, Borden, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 35 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 26, 4:20 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Blanco, Borden, Brown, Callahan, Coke and 45 more | 115 min |
| Mar 26, 6:12 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet and 42 more | 63 min |
| Mar 26, 10:05 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Atascosa, Austin, Bastrop, Bell and 42 more | 115 min |
| Mar 26, 12:42 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Loving | 2 hr |
| Mar 26, 4:42 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Marion, Morris, Red River and 1 more | 2 hr |
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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.