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Tornado Watch 202

April 25, 200538 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 25, 2005, 2:20 PM CDT for 38 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Apr 25, 2005, 2:20 PM CDT (19:20 UTC)
Expired
Apr 25, 2005, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 38 counties

Bell County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Denton County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Falls County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Llano County, TX, Mason County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Mills County, TX, Montague County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wise County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 25, 2:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHood62 min
Apr 25, 3:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker44 min
Apr 25, 3:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant62 min
Apr 25, 3:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson57 min
Apr 25, 4:03 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDJohnson, Tarrant3 hr
Apr 25, 4:08 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDTarrant37 min
Apr 25, 4:16 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDJohnson44 min
Apr 25, 4:26 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDDallas, Ellis34 min
Apr 25, 4:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque65 min
Apr 25, 4:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill67 min
Apr 25, 4:56 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDEllis49 min
Apr 25, 5:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas30 min
Apr 25, 5:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDGrayson45 min
Apr 25, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDKaufman65 min
Apr 25, 5:33 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDNavarro42 min
Apr 25, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis16 min
Apr 25, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFannin55 min
Apr 25, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDNavarro54 min
Apr 25, 8:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDGrayson67 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 128 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 12:00Z on 2005-04-25Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2005-04-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 296 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1543 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
296 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
282 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
Apr 25, 1:34 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBell, Bosque, Burnet, Clay, Collin, Comanche and 29 more86 min
Apr 25, 4:16 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBell, Bosque, Burnet, Collin, Cooke, Coryell and 24 more59 min
Apr 25, 6:13 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Bell, Bosque, Bowie, Burnet, Camp and 39 more62 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.