Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches in 2006
Tornado Watch 95
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 19, 2006, 2:05 AM CST for 15 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 2006, 2:05 AM CST (08:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2006, 8:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Blanco County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Concho County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Llano County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Val Verde County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 5:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 58 min |
| Mar 19, 5:43 AM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards | 32 min |
| Mar 19, 6:12 AM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards | 18 min |
| Mar 19, 6:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kerr | 42 min |
| Mar 19, 6:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble, Menard, Schleicher, Sutton | 45 min |
| Mar 19, 6:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble | 44 min |
| Mar 19, 7:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 40 min |
| Mar 19, 7:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Llano | 62 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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 1296 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1421 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 7.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WWUS20 KWNS 190758
SEL5
SPC WW 190758
TXZ000-191400-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 95
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
200 AM CST SUN MAR 19 2006
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS
EFFECTIVE THIS SUNDAY MORNING FROM 200 AM UNTIL 800 AM CST.
TORNADOES...HAIL TO 1.5 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND
GUSTS TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE
AREAS.
THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 100 STATUTE
MILES EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 60 MILES NORTHEAST OF JUNCTION
TEXAS TO 60 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JUNCTION TEXAS. FOR A COMPLETE
DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE
(WOUS64 KWNS WOU5).
REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.
OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...THIS TORNADO WATCH REPLACES SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 94. WATCH NUMBER 94 WILL NOT BE IN
EFFECT AFTER 200 AM CST.
DISCUSSION...SEVERAL DISCRETE SUPERCELLS CONTINUE TO MOVE GENERALLY
E ALONG SLOWLY MOVING WARM FRONT OVER THE SRN EDWARDS PLATEAU/HILL
COUNTRY. DIRECTIONAL SHEAR ALONG BOUNDARY WILL ENHANCE LOW LEVEL
SRH. THIS MAY FOSTER DEVELOPMENT OF A TORNADO OR TWO...IN ADDITION
TO HAIL/HEAVY RAIN AND LOCALLY DAMAGING WIND.
AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 1.5 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE
WIND GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO
500. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 27030.
...CORFIDISPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 7:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Bandera, Borden, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 42 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 18, 8:58 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Borden, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 34 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 18, 10:15 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Callahan and 28 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 18, 11:30 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Concho, Crockett and 15 more | 90 min |
| Mar 19, 1:23 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Comal, Crockett and 18 more | 37 min |
| Mar 19, 4:47 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Blanco, Burnet, Concho, Edwards, Gillespie and 13 more | 88 min |
| Mar 19, 7:55 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet and 43 more | 35 min |
| Mar 19, 8:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blanco, Burnet, Gillespie, Llano, Travis, Williamson | 2 hr |
| Mar 19, 10:12 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bell, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Camp and 42 more | 93 min |
| Mar 19, 12:15 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett, Glasscock and 13 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 19, 3:02 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Bell, Blanco, Burnet, Comal, Coryell and 20 more | 118 min |
| Mar 19, 3:38 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bandera, Brown, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett and 20 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 19, 5:36 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Brown, Concho, Edwards, Gillespie, Irion and 16 more | 114 min |
| Mar 19, 5:51 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Cochran, Deaf Smith, Ector, Gaines and 8 more | 54 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.