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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 98
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 19, 2006, 5:09 PM MST for 5 counties in New Mexico; 18 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 2006, 5:09 PM MST (00:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2006, 12:00 AM MST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties
Curry County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crane County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Loving County, TX, Midland County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Terry County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:11 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
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 7:07 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 53 min |
| Mar 19, 7:19 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 26 min |
| Mar 19, 7:24 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 66 min |
| Mar 19, 7:45 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 75 min |
| Mar 19, 7:49 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 3 hr |
| Mar 19, 7:57 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 63 min |
| Mar 19, 8:14 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews | 4 hr |
| Mar 19, 8:26 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 64 min |
| Mar 19, 8:36 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry | 39 min |
| Mar 19, 8:42 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 42 min |
| Mar 19, 9:02 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 58 min |
| Mar 19, 9:14 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 61 min |
| Mar 19, 9:41 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 64 min |
| Mar 19, 9:42 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 63 min |
| Mar 19, 9:47 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 43 min |
| Mar 19, 10:14 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 42 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, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 742 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 100 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 373 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 7:54 PM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Curry, Eddy, Lea, Roosevelt | 2 hr |
| Mar 19, 7:34 PM MST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Austin, Bandera, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar and 39 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 19, 8:48 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baylor, Borden, Briscoe, Callahan, Childress, Coke and 33 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 19, 9:32 PM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Austin, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Brazos and 28 more | 118 min |
| Mar 19, 10:37 PM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Austin, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Brazos and 28 more | 83 min |
| Mar 20, 12:26 AM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Aransas, Atascosa, Austin, Bastrop, Bee and 59 more | 64 min |
| Mar 20, 1:08 AM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baylor, Callahan, Childress, Coke, Coleman, Cottle and 17 more | 67 min |
| Mar 20, 2:36 AM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers and 27 more | 24 min |
| Mar 20, 3:21 AM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Hardin, Jasper, Liberty, Montgomery, Newton and 7 more | 24 min |
| Mar 20, 3:44 AM MST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hardin, Jasper, Newton, Tyler | 5 hr |
| Mar 20, 5:36 AM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jasper, Newton, Sabine, San Augustine | 54 min |
| Mar 20, 8:20 AM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hardin, Jasper, Liberty, Newton, Polk, Sabine and 1 more | 85 min |
| Mar 20, 11:47 AM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Hardeman, Montague, Wichita, Wilbarger | 88 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.