Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 176
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 28, 2003, 3:15 PM CDT for 35 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 2003, 3:15 PM CDT (20:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2003, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 35 counties
Andrews County, TX, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Borden County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Ector County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Howard County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Randall County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:17 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
20 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 54 min |
| Apr 28, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry | 46 min |
| Apr 28, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale | 38 min |
| Apr 28, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 40 min |
| Apr 28, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 41 min |
| Apr 28, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Lubbock | 50 min |
| Apr 28, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 46 min |
| Apr 28, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Randall | 41 min |
| Apr 28, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 61 min |
| Apr 28, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden | 56 min |
| Apr 28, 6:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Borden, Dawson | 116 min |
| Apr 28, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 32 min |
| Apr 28, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 58 min |
| Apr 28, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 51 min |
| Apr 28, 6:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Martin | 48 min |
| Apr 28, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Randall | 26 min |
| Apr 28, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 57 min |
| Apr 28, 7:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Howard | 2 hr |
| Apr 28, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin, Midland | 59 min |
| Apr 28, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 38 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 313 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -307 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1644 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 2:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Crosby and 16 more | 116 min |
| Apr 28, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Callahan, Coke, Concho, Crockett, Edwards, Fisher and 15 more | 4 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.