Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches in 2006
Tornado Watch 97
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 19, 2006, 3:38 PM CST for 26 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 2006, 3:38 PM CST (21:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2006, 8:38 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 26 counties
Bandera County, TX, Brown County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Concho County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Irion County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Llano County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, Real County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Val Verde County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 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
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 4:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 47 min |
| Mar 19, 5:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Crockett | 24 min |
| Mar 19, 5:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion | 41 min |
| Mar 19, 5:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Crockett, Schleicher | 33 min |
| Mar 19, 5:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 42 min |
| Mar 19, 5:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Schleicher | 32 min |
| Mar 19, 6:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 17 min |
| Mar 19, 6:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Menard, Schleicher | 32 min |
| Mar 19, 6:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho, Menard | 46 min |
| Mar 19, 7:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Kinney | 26 min |
| Mar 19, 7:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | McCulloch | 26 min |
| Mar 19, 7:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Bandera, Real | 66 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 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 917 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 610 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WWUS20 KWNS 192138
SEL7
SPC WW 192138
TXZ000-200500-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 97
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
340 PM CST SUN MAR 19 2006
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS
EFFECTIVE THIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 340 PM UNTIL 1100
PM CST.
TORNADOES...HAIL TO 2.5 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 85 STATUTE MILES
NORTH AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 75 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF DEL RIO
TEXAS TO 60 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF BROWNWOOD TEXAS. FOR A
COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE
UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU7).
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.
DISCUSSION...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING WEST OF
SJT...AHEAD OF APPROACHING UPPER TROUGH. FURTHER DEVELOPMENT IS
EXPECTED THROUGH THE EVENING IN VICINITY OF SURFACE WARM FRONT.
SUPERCELLS CAPABLE OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE
POSSIBLE. STRENGTHENING LOW LEVEL WINDS AFTER DARK WILL ALSO POSE A
THREAT OF ISOLATED TORNADOES.
AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 2.5 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE
WIND GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO
500. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 25035.
...HARTSPC 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, 2:05 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blanco, Burnet, Concho, Edwards, Gillespie, Kerr and 9 more | 6 hr |
| 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, 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.