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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 59

March 30, 201634 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 30, 2016, 2:09 PM CDT for 34 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Mar 30, 2016, 2:09 PM CDT (19:09 UTC)
Expired
Mar 30, 2016, 7:17 PM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
2.5 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 34 counties

Bosque County, TX, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Hood County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Jones County, TX, Mills County, TX, Montague County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Dyess AFB radar (KDYX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:08 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.

What SPC expected

The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.

Two or more tornadoes
10%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
2%
Ten or more severe wind reports
30%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
10%
Ten or more severe hail reports
60%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
40%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
90%

Warnings issued inside it

18 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 30, 2:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto, Stephens62 min
Mar 30, 3:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDWise60 min
Mar 30, 3:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker57 min
Mar 30, 3:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto65 min
Mar 30, 3:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDErath63 min
Mar 30, 4:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche, Eastland47 min
Mar 30, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDParker, Tarrant47 min
Mar 30, 5:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHood, Johnson, Somervell42 min
Mar 30, 5:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche, Hamilton66 min
Mar 30, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDJohnson15 min
Mar 30, 5:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJohnson, Tarrant63 min
Mar 30, 5:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas, Ellis63 min
Mar 30, 6:05 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDJohnson3 hr
Mar 30, 6:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDComanche, Hamilton61 min
Mar 30, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDEllis, Johnson65 min
Mar 30, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque41 min
Mar 30, 6:42 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDHamilton2 hr
Mar 30, 6:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBosque, Coryell, Hamilton, McLennan51 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

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 150 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2016-03-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1073 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2016-03-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 114 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1073 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-133 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
594 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
114 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
160 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.7

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 30, 11:57 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBowie, Camp, Cass, Delta, Fannin, Franklin and 6 more63 min
Mar 30, 1:00 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArcher, Baylor, Clay, Montague, Wichita, Wilbarger2 hr
Mar 30, 1:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Clay, Wichita8 hr
Mar 30, 1:57 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBosque, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Collin and 28 more63 min
Mar 30, 2:07 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBowie, Camp, Cass, Gregg, Harrison, Marion and 6 more83 min
Mar 30, 2:31 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison and 9 more7 hr
Mar 30, 3:54 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArcher, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Clay, Coleman and 27 more96 min
Mar 30, 5:06 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBowie, Camp, Cass, Gregg, Harrison, Marion and 7 more84 min
Mar 30, 5:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAnderson, Bell, Bosque, Collin, Coryell, Dallas and 30 more4 hr

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.