Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Watches in 2007
Tornado Watch 93
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 30, 2007, 11:47 AM CDT for 18 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 2007, 11:47 AM CDT (16:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2007, 5:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Coke County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Real County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Val Verde County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:47 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
26 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 11:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher | 27 min |
| Mar 30, 11:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Kendall, Kerr | 25 min |
| Mar 30, 11:58 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Fisher, Jones, Nolan, Taylor | 32 min |
| Mar 30, 12:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Coke | 32 min |
| Mar 30, 12:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Nolan | 29 min |
| Mar 30, 12:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher, Jones, Nolan, Taylor | 46 min |
| Mar 30, 12:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 36 min |
| Mar 30, 12:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Nolan, Runnels, Taylor | 33 min |
| Mar 30, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble, Sutton | 45 min |
| Mar 30, 1:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Jones, Taylor | 46 min |
| Mar 30, 1:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Taylor | 47 min |
| Mar 30, 1:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Irion, Tom Green | 50 min |
| Mar 30, 1:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman, Runnels | 44 min |
| Mar 30, 2:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Runnels | 36 min |
| Mar 30, 2:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho, Tom Green | 46 min |
| Mar 30, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Callahan, Coleman, Runnels, Taylor | 47 min |
| Mar 30, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett | 50 min |
| Mar 30, 3:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman, Concho, Runnels, Tom Green | 44 min |
| Mar 30, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 68 min |
| Mar 30, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman, Runnels | 44 min |
| Mar 30, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett, Schleicher, Sutton | 40 min |
| Mar 30, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coleman, Concho, Runnels | 50 min |
| Mar 30, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 78 min |
| Mar 30, 4:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 51 min |
| Mar 30, 5:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | SJT | Coleman, Concho, Runnels | 4 hr |
| Mar 30, 5:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EWX | Edwards | 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 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 1725 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 351 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 553 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 7:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Camp, Cherokee, Franklin, Freestone, Gregg and 9 more | 88 min |
| Mar 29, 10:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Delta, Denton and 23 more | 119 min |
| Mar 30, 4:44 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Bandera, Crane, Crockett, Dimmit, Ector and 20 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 30, 6:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 40 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 30, 9:31 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Bosque, Brown and 55 more | 59 min |
| Mar 30, 9:51 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Archer, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet and 48 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 30, 12:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Concho, Eastland and 20 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 30, 2:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Coryell, McLennan | 92 min |
| Mar 30, 3:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bosque, Brown, Clay, Coleman, Collin, Comanche and 34 more | 89 min |
| Mar 30, 4:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown and 67 more | 54 min |
| Mar 30, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bandera, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Bosque and 65 more | 8 hr |
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.