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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 429

May 24, 20038 counties in Oklahoma; 36 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 24, 2003, 8:40 PM CDT for 8 counties in Oklahoma; 36 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 2003, 8:40 PM CDT (01:40 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 2003, 2:00 AM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 44 counties

Caddo County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Archer County, TX, Armstrong County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Clay County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Foard County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Jack County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Randall County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Young County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 8:51 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBLamb24 min
May 24, 8:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKiowa52 min
May 24, 8:55 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBHockley50 min
May 24, 9:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLubbock47 min
May 24, 9:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKiowa48 min
May 24, 9:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale42 min
May 24, 10:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd58 min
May 24, 10:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGreer, Jackson64 min
May 24, 10:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKiowa29 min
May 24, 10:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHall47 min
May 24, 10:46 PM CDTTornado WarningOUNJackson39 min
May 24, 11:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNGreer50 min
May 24, 11:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNJackson48 min
May 24, 11:24 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLUBHall111 min
May 24, 11:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBChildress, Hall47 min
May 24, 11:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNJackson52 min
May 24, 11:53 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNJackson2 hr
May 25, 12:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBChildress45 min
May 25, 1:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNCotton64 min
May 25, 1:54 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOUNCotton, Jefferson, Love3 hr

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 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 132 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 00:00Z on 2003-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 89 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 00:00Z on 2003-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -5 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
89 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-122 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2674 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
103 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 24, 8:10 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCimarron35 min
May 24, 8:22 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeckham, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Tillman23 min
May 24, 9:32 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBryan, Carter, Love, Marshall118 min
May 24, 10:05 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCComanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Kiowa and 1 more85 min
May 24, 11:32 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCComanche, Cotton, Grady, Greer, Harmon, Jackson and 2 more118 min
May 25, 1:11 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCotton, Jackson, Jefferson, Love, Marshall, Tillman2 hr
May 25, 1:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBeckham, Bryan, Caddo, Carter, Choctaw, Comanche and 16 more6 hr
May 25, 3:42 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCJefferson, Love2 hr
May 24, 10:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCollin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Henderson, Hunt and 8 more6 hr
May 25, 1:10 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAndrews, Crane, Crockett, Ector, Gaines, Loving and 9 more95 min
May 25, 4:20 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCulberson, Loving, Pecos, Reeves, Ward, Winkler85 min
May 25, 4:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBrewster, Crane, Loving, Pecos, Reeves, Terrell and 2 more6 hr
May 25, 5:06 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBell, Burnet, Crockett, Culberson, Falls, Houston and 18 more114 min
May 25, 6:19 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCConcho, Crockett, Edwards, Irion, Kerr, Kimble and 9 more86 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.