Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches in 2006
Tornado Watch 44
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 8, 2006, 11:25 PM CST for 37 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 8, 2006, 11:25 PM CST (05:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2006, 6:00 AM CST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 37 counties
Anderson County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bell County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Comal County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Falls County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Lee County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Medina County, TX, Milam County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Rains County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Smith County, TX, Travis County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wood County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:24 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
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 11:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls, McLennan | 45 min |
| Mar 8, 11:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Bexar, Kendall | 36 min |
| Mar 9, 12:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Hays, Travis | 53 min |
| Mar 9, 1:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Lee, Williamson | 26 min |
| Mar 9, 1:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bastrop, Lee, Williamson | 44 min |
| Mar 9, 5:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman, Rains, Van Zandt | 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
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 734 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1286 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 8:22 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Callahan, Clay, Cooke, Denton and 16 more | 53 min |
| Mar 8, 10:51 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Callahan, Camp, Clay, Collin and 40 more | 24 min |
| Mar 8, 11:02 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Blanco and 32 more | 88 min |
| Mar 8, 11:42 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Camp, Clay, Collin, Cooke and 17 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 9, 1:36 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Cass | 5 hr |
| Mar 9, 1:57 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Collin, Cooke, Delta, Denton, Fannin, Grayson and 3 more | 63 min |
| Mar 9, 5:14 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Hardin, Harrison, Houston, Jasper, Jefferson and 14 more | 91 min |
| Mar 9, 5:48 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Chambers, Cherokee and 33 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 9, 11:05 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Orange | 85 min |
Nearby
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.