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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 93

March 18, 200678 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 18, 2006, 11:04 AM CST for 78 counties in Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Mar 18, 2006, 11:04 AM CST (17:04 UTC)
Expired
Mar 18, 2006, 3:26 PM CST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 78 counties

Anderson County, TX, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Borden County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Clay County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Foard County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Garza County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Montague County, TX, Motley County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rains County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Terry County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:03 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 18, 11:34 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHill48 min
Mar 18, 12:03 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis, Navarro57 min
Mar 18, 12:04 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis, Navarro56 min
Mar 18, 12:56 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHenderson, Navarro, Van Zandt64 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 17, 6:29 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCrane, Crockett, Pecos, Terrell, Upton, Val Verde91 min
Mar 18, 5:26 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAndrews, Borden, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 28 more34 min
Mar 18, 6:31 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArmstrong, Baylor, Borden, Briscoe, Callahan, Childress and 40 more29 min
Mar 18, 9:26 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArcher, Armstrong, Baylor, Bosque, Briscoe, Callahan and 55 more3 hr
Mar 18, 1:30 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArcher, Baylor, Borden, Bosque, Callahan, Castro and 55 more2 hr
Mar 18, 5:13 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAndrews, Borden, Coke, Crane, Crockett, Dawson and 22 more2 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.