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Tornado Watch 364

May 31, 200519 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 31, 2005, 7:05 PM CDT for 19 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 31, 2005, 7:05 PM CDT (00:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2005, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Borden County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Garza County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Howard County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Stonewall	57 min
May 31, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell	64 min
May 31, 8:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Lynn	58 min
May 31, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Kent	65 min
May 31, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Stonewall	60 min
May 31, 8:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Mitchell	57 min
May 31, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher, Jones	31 min
May 31, 8:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Fisher, Jones	37 min
May 31, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Garza	65 min
May 31, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher	45 min
May 31, 9:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell, Throckmorton	53 min
May 31, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Nolan	28 min
May 31, 9:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Jones	24 min
May 31, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell	35 min
May 31, 9:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Scurry	57 min
May 31, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher	47 min
May 31, 9:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Jones, Taylor	30 min
May 31, 9:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Jones	28 min
May 31, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell, Throckmorton	32 min
May 31, 10:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Taylor	30 min
May 31, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell	51 min
May 31, 10:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Taylor	2 hr
May 31, 10:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan, Shackelford	28 min
May 31, 10:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman, Runnels, Taylor	51 min
May 31, 10:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Nolan	47 min
May 31, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Taylor	30 min
May 31, 10:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan, Shackelford	24 min
May 31, 11:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke, Nolan	36 min
May 31, 11:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SJT	Coleman, Concho, Runnels	43 min
Jun 1, 12:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coleman, Concho, McCulloch	45 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 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 160 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3403 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 9:05 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Brown, Coke, Coleman, Concho, McCulloch, Mason and 5 more	5 hr
May 31, 9:15 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bosque, Comanche, Dallas, Denton, Eastland, Ellis and 12 more	90 min
May 31, 9:48 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baylor, Clay, Foard, Knox, Wichita, Wilbarger	57 min
May 31, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Archer, Bosque, Clay, Comanche, Eastland, Erath and 10 more	7 hr
May 31, 10:46 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Borden, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho and 25 more	119 min
May 31, 11:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bosque, Comanche, Eastland, Erath, Hamilton, Hood and 7 more	85 min
Jun 1, 12:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Atascosa, Bandera, Bee, Bexar, Blanco, Caldwell and 22 more	6 hr
Jun 1, 1:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Brown, Comanche, Concho, Irion, McCulloch, Mason and 6 more	3 hr
Jun 1, 3:09 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aransas, Atascosa, Austin, Bandera, Bastrop, Bee and 64 more	96 min
Jun 1, 5:17 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aransas, Atascosa, Bandera, Bee, Bexar, Blanco and 45 more	88 min
Jun 1, 6:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Brooks, Cameron, Duval, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells and 7 more	5 hr
Jun 1, 9:46 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr, Willacy	59 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.