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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 43
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 4, 2020, 7:33 AM CST for 16 counties in Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 4, 2020, 7:33 AM CST (13:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 4, 2020, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Anderson County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Falls County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Houston County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Madison County, TX, Milam County, TX, Polk County, TX, Robertson County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Walker County, TX
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 176 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:29 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
- 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
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 7:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Milam | 58 min |
| Mar 4, 8:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls, Limestone, Robertson | 54 min |
| Mar 4, 8:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Milam, Robertson | 44 min |
| Mar 4, 8:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazos, Burleson | 22 min |
| Mar 4, 9:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Brazos, Grimes, Madison | 32 min |
| Mar 4, 10:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston, Trinity, Walker | 37 min |
| Mar 4, 11:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston, Polk, Trinity | 20 min |
| Mar 4, 11:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Grimes, Montgomery, Walker | 37 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
Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 804 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 9:05 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Burleson, Burnet and 23 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 4, 1:19 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Jasper, Nacogdoches, Newton, Panola, Sabine and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 4, 2:03 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Edwards, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr, Kimble and 11 more | 117 min |
| Mar 4, 2:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bandera, Bexar, Blanco, Burnet, Comal, Edwards and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 4, 4:20 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Brazos and 41 more | 115 min |
| Mar 4, 5:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Angelina, Cherokee, Jasper, Nacogdoches, Newton, Panola and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 4, 10:50 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Houston, Jasper, Nacogdoches, Newton, Polk and 5 more | 115 min |
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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.