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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 454

June 1, 20034 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 1, 2003, 2:10 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 1, 2003, 2:10 PM MDT (20:10 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2003, 8:00 PM MDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 35 counties

Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Grant County, KS, Hamilton County, KS, Haskell County, KS, Kearny County, KS, Morton County, KS, Seward County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Stevens County, KS, Beaver County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Wheeler County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 171 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 3:51 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AMA	Armstrong, Carson	54 min
Jun 1, 3:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	51 min
Jun 1, 4:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Hamilton	47 min
Jun 1, 4:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Stanton	42 min
Jun 1, 4:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	Grant, Kearny	65 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 172 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 16 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -553 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2116 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 54 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 12:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cheyenne, Crowley, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Logan and 5 more	6 hr
Jun 1, 2:34 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baca, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Prowers	116 min
Jun 1, 11:46 AM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cheyenne, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Logan, Rawlins and 5 more	119 min
Jun 1, 4:03 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barber, Barton, Comanche, Decatur, Edwards, Ellis and 25 more	57 min
Jun 1, 4:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barber, Barton, Clark, Cloud, Comanche, Decatur and 45 more	6 hr
Jun 1, 5:27 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Edwards, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray and 9 more	63 min
Jun 1, 4:25 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 24 more	3 hr
Jun 1, 1:39 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Crane, Deaf Smith and 14 more	3 hr
Jun 1, 1:59 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Irion, McCulloch and 8 more	3 hr
Jun 1, 2:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho and 26 more	6 hr
Jun 1, 2:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more	5 hr
Jun 1, 5:07 PM MDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Borden, Briscoe, Callahan, Childress, Cochran and 50 more	113 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.