Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 37
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 4, 2006, 2:07 PM MST for 5 counties in New Mexico; Beaver County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 32 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 4, 2006, 2:07 PM MST (21:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 4, 2006, 9:00 PM MST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 39 counties
Chaves County, NM, Curry County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Beaver County, OK, Texas County, OK, Andrews County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crane County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Loving County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:08 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
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 3:43 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Oldham | 27 min |
| Mar 4, 3:49 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter | 47 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 869 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 1:03 PM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Lea, Quay and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 4, 4:16 PM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Curry, Lea, Roosevelt | 89 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2006Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New Mexico, 2006Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Oklahoma, 2006Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2006
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.