Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 36
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 8, 2016, 1:18 AM CST for 54 counties in Texas. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 8, 2016, 1:18 AM CST (07:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 2016, 11:00 AM CST
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 54 counties
Bosque County, TX, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Concho County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jack County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Menard County, TX, Mills County, TX, Montague County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Rains County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Val Verde County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:19 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
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 20%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 5%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
23 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 1:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Crockett, Irion, Schleicher, Tom Green | 65 min |
| Mar 8, 1:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Val Verde | 46 min |
| Mar 8, 2:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke, Irion, Tom Green | 40 min |
| Mar 8, 3:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards, Val Verde | 28 min |
| Mar 8, 3:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Kimble, Menard, Schleicher, Sutton | 56 min |
| Mar 8, 4:21 AM CST | Tornado Warning | SJT | Kimble, Menard | 24 min |
| Mar 8, 4:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Concho, Kimble, McCulloch, Mason, Menard, San Saba | 61 min |
| Mar 8, 5:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 52 min |
| Mar 8, 5:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Brown, Coleman, McCulloch, San Saba | 46 min |
| Mar 8, 6:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath | 42 min |
| Mar 8, 6:59 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Jack, Palo Pinto, Parker | 3 hr |
| Mar 8, 7:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | San Saba | 65 min |
| Mar 8, 7:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Erath, Hood, Palo Pinto, Parker, Somervell | 58 min |
| Mar 8, 7:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Wise | 50 min |
| Mar 8, 7:46 AM CST | Tornado Warning | FWD | Hood, Johnson, Parker, Tarrant | 29 min |
| Mar 8, 8:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 58 min |
| Mar 8, 8:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 63 min |
| Mar 8, 8:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 54 min |
| Mar 8, 8:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin | 54 min |
| Mar 8, 9:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Grayson | 52 min |
| Mar 8, 9:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Fannin, Hunt | 58 min |
| Mar 8, 9:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin | 19 min |
| Mar 8, 10:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lamar | 57 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 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 4057 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 6:42 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bosque, Comanche, Cooke, Dallas, Denton, Ellis and 10 more | 63 min |
| Mar 7, 11:41 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Borden, Coke, Concho, Crane, Crockett, Dawson and 27 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 8, 3:36 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Childress, Clay, Cottle, Dickens and 6 more | 84 min |
| Mar 8, 3:57 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Clay, Coleman and 36 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 8, 7:06 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Austin, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Bosque and 64 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 8, 7:24 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Brazos, Burleson and 29 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 8, 9:00 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bastrop, Bell, Bosque, Burleson, Burnet and 35 more | 90 min |
| Mar 8, 10:46 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Cherokee, Hardin, Houston, Jasper, Liberty and 12 more | 89 min |
| Mar 8, 12:41 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Angelina, Austin, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Chambers and 34 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 8, 1:10 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Coke and 32 more | 95 min |
| Mar 8, 3:11 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Bowie, Cass, Chambers, Cherokee and 24 more | 94 min |
| Mar 8, 5:52 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Hardin, Jasper, Newton, Sabine, San Augustine and 2 more | 83 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.