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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 427

May 24, 200339 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 24, 2003, 3:25 PM CDT for 39 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 2003, 3:25 PM CDT (20:25 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2003, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 39 counties

Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Garza County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Moore County, TX, Motley County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Wheeler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 5:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent43 min
May 24, 5:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey, Parmer39 min
May 24, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAMoore55 min
May 24, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLamb52 min
May 24, 6:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMARoberts64 min
May 24, 6:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey45 min
May 24, 6:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHemphill55 min
May 24, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey60 min
May 24, 7:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey59 min
May 24, 7:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza51 min
May 24, 7:13 PM CDTTornado WarningAMAGray, Roberts62 min
May 24, 7:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACarson62 min
May 24, 7:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey46 min
May 24, 8:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCochran62 min
May 24, 8:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLamb41 min
May 24, 8:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMACarson46 min
May 24, 8:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAGray57 min
May 24, 8:51 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBLamb24 min
May 24, 8:55 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBHockley50 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 57 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2003-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 40 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2003-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 149 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
40 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-384 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1782 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
149 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
181 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 7:08 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDallam, Deaf Smith, Hartley, Oldham67 min
May 24, 1:03 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChildress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Donley, Foard, Gray and 8 more117 min
May 24, 9:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCLamar, Red River5 hr
May 24, 11:27 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLamar93 min
May 24, 1:05 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArmstrong, Carson, Castro, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Gray and 7 more2 hr
May 24, 3:19 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArmstrong, Bailey, Baylor, Borden, Briscoe, Carson and 37 more86 min
May 24, 5:17 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArcher, Bosque, Collin, Dallas, Denton, Eastland and 20 more88 min
May 24, 5:39 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArmstrong, Bailey, Carson, Castro, Cochran, Dallam and 21 more96 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.