Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 180
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 29, 2003, 2:30 PM CDT for 6 counties in Oklahoma; 38 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 29, 2003, 2:30 PM CDT (19:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2003, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 44 counties
Beckham County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Borden County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Childress County, TX, Coke County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Foard County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Howard County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Motley County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:32 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
22 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hale, Lubbock | 44 min |
| Apr 29, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 43 min |
| Apr 29, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hall | 65 min |
| Apr 29, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 45 min |
| Apr 29, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill | 42 min |
| Apr 29, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Nolan | 54 min |
| Apr 29, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis, Roger Mills | 55 min |
| Apr 29, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Nolan | 64 min |
| Apr 29, 6:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Nolan | 55 min |
| Apr 29, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Fisher | 64 min |
| Apr 29, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Foard | 62 min |
| Apr 29, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King, Stonewall | 36 min |
| Apr 29, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Greer | 48 min |
| Apr 29, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Sterling | 63 min |
| Apr 29, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 23 min |
| Apr 29, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill | 29 min |
| Apr 29, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Nolan | 50 min |
| Apr 29, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Coke | 61 min |
| Apr 29, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 45 min |
| Apr 29, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Roger Mills | 44 min |
| Apr 29, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Ellis | 49 min |
| Apr 29, 7:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SJT | Coke | 47 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -470 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2022 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 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, 7:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Craig, Kay, Nowata, Osage, Ottawa, Washington | 2 hr |
| Apr 29, 5:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Dewey, Ellis, Greer, Harmon, Jackson and 1 more | 85 min |
| Apr 29, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Comanche, Custer and 16 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 28, 7:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Borden, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Coke and 29 more | 53 min |
| Apr 28, 9:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Caldwell and 38 more | 85 min |
| Apr 29, 1:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Borden, Briscoe, Childress, Coke, Cottle, Crockett and 31 more | 3 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.