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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 62
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 30, 2016, 5:36 PM CDT for 36 counties in Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 2016, 5:36 PM CDT (22:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2016, 9:22 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 36 counties
Anderson County, TX, Bell County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Collin County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Falls County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Houston County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Rains County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 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.
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
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 90%
Warnings issued inside it
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas, Ellis | 63 min |
| Mar 30, 6:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Johnson | 3 hr |
| Mar 30, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Comanche, Hamilton | 61 min |
| Mar 30, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis, Johnson | 65 min |
| Mar 30, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque | 41 min |
| Mar 30, 6:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Hamilton | 2 hr |
| Mar 30, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bosque, Coryell, Hamilton, McLennan | 51 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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 58 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
- 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
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 11:57 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Delta, Fannin, Franklin and 6 more | 63 min |
| Mar 30, 1:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Montague, Wichita, Wilbarger | 2 hr |
| Mar 30, 1:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Clay, Wichita | 8 hr |
| Mar 30, 1:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Collin and 28 more | 63 min |
| Mar 30, 2:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Gregg, Harrison, Marion and 6 more | 83 min |
| Mar 30, 2:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Collin and 28 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 30, 2:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Clay, Coleman and 27 more | 96 min |
| Mar 30, 5:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bowie, Camp, Cass, Gregg, Harrison, Marion and 7 more | 84 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.