Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 346
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 5, 2007, 5:13 AM CDT for 35 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 2007, 5:13 AM CDT (10:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2007, 12:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 35 counties
Aransas County, TX, Atascosa County, TX, Bandera County, TX, Bee County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Comal County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Dimmit County, TX, Duval County, TX, Frio County, TX, Goliad County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, La Salle County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, Maverick County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Medina County, TX, Nueces County, TX, Real County, TX, Refugio County, TX, San Patricio County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Victoria County, TX, Webb County, TX, Wilson County, TX, Zavala County, TX
The radar
The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:13 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.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 5%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 50%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 5:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Dimmit, Zavala | 77 min |
| Jun 5, 5:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Maverick | 51 min |
| Jun 5, 6:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | La Salle | 74 min |
| Jun 5, 6:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio | 56 min |
| Jun 5, 6:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | EWX | Dimmit | 3 hr |
| Jun 5, 6:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Dimmit, Zavala | 45 min |
| Jun 5, 6:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Webb | 66 min |
| Jun 5, 7:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Live Oak, McMullen | 70 min |
| Jun 5, 7:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Frio | 51 min |
| Jun 5, 7:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval, La Salle, Webb | 75 min |
| Jun 5, 8:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Jim Wells, Live Oak | 45 min |
| Jun 5, 8:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee, Kleberg, Nueces, San Patricio | 59 min |
| Jun 5, 8:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Jim Wells, Live Oak | 31 min |
| Jun 5, 9:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas, Bee, Goliad, Kleberg, Nueces, Refugio and 1 more | 65 min |
| Jun 5, 10:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas, Calhoun, Refugio | 114 min |
| Jun 5, 11:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Victoria | 2 hr |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 2431 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1110 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 7:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Crane, Culberson, Ector, Gaines, Hudspeth and 7 more | 56 min |
| Jun 5, 2:01 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dimmit, Frio, Kinney, Maverick, Medina, Terrell and 3 more | 59 min |
| Jun 5, 7:21 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aransas, Atascosa, Bandera, Bee, Bexar, Calhoun and 26 more | 84 min |
| Jun 5, 10:40 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aransas, Atascosa, Bee, Calhoun, DeWitt, Duval and 13 more | 95 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.