Alert archive / Oklahoma / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 458
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 1, 2003, 7:30 PM CDT for 47 counties in Oklahoma; 25 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 2003, 7:30 PM CDT (00:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2003, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 72 counties
Alfalfa County, OK, Beaver County, OK, Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Grant County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Harper County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Johnston County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Lincoln County, OK, Logan County, OK, Love County, OK, Major County, OK, Marshall County, OK, McClain County, OK, Murray County, OK, Noble County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Osage County, OK, Pawnee County, OK, Payne County, OK, Pontotoc County, OK, Pottawatomie County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Seminole County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woods County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Childress County, TX, Clay County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Foard County, TX, Gray County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Montague County, TX, Motley County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Wheeler County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX
Warnings issued inside it
30 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer | 42 min |
| Jun 1, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harmon | 40 min |
| Jun 1, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor, Knox | 40 min |
| Jun 1, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Wichita | 42 min |
| Jun 1, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Archer | 50 min |
| Jun 1, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harmon, Jackson | 46 min |
| Jun 1, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Baylor, Knox, Wilbarger | 47 min |
| Jun 1, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Clay | 42 min |
| Jun 1, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson | 44 min |
| Jun 1, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Tillman | 66 min |
| Jun 1, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche, Cotton, Kiowa | 41 min |
| Jun 1, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Jackson | 41 min |
| Jun 1, 10:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Harper, Woods, Woodward | 40 min |
| Jun 1, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Custer, Dewey, Roger Mills | 43 min |
| Jun 1, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Comanche, Cotton, Kiowa | 45 min |
| Jun 1, 10:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Caddo, Grady, Stephens | 47 min |
| Jun 1, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Custer | 45 min |
| Jun 1, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Washita | 39 min |
| Jun 1, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Custer | 31 min |
| Jun 1, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Grady, McClain | 44 min |
| Jun 2, 12:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cleveland | 44 min |
| Jun 2, 12:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Blaine | 39 min |
| Jun 2, 12:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage, Tulsa | 46 min |
| Jun 2, 12:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 44 min |
| Jun 2, 12:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Cleveland, Pottawatomie | 48 min |
| Jun 2, 12:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Garfield, Noble | 47 min |
| Jun 2, 12:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Kay | 46 min |
| Jun 2, 1:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Lincoln | 44 min |
| Jun 2, 1:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Pawnee | 43 min |
| Jun 2, 1:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Osage | 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 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 229 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
- 23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -220 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2735 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 289 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 8:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Harper | 65 min |
| Jun 1, 9:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Comanche, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Harper and 6 more | 95 min |
| Jun 1, 11:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 22 more | 91 min |
| Jun 2, 12:27 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Creek, Delaware, Garfield, Haskell and 25 more | 63 min |
| Jun 2, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Cherokee, Cleveland, Coal, Creek and 34 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 2, 2:53 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Haskell and 16 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 2, 2:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | LeFlore, McCurtain, Pushmataha | 113 min |
| Jun 2, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cimarron | 5 hr |
| Jun 1, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Cochran, Crane, Crosby and 24 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 1, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Callahan, Coke and 51 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 1, 9:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Crane, Crosby, Dawson, Ector and 18 more | 116 min |
| Jun 1, 10:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Eastland and 8 more | 59 min |
| Jun 1, 11:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Borden, Crane, Ector, Glasscock, Howard, Martin and 5 more | 87 min |
| Jun 1, 11:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bosque, Brown, Comanche, Concho, Coryell, Erath and 16 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 2, 1:42 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Coleman, Comanche and 28 more | 63 min |
| Jun 2, 11:35 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bell, Blanco, Burleson, Burnet, Cherokee and 34 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 2, 12:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown and 39 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 2, 2:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Burnet and 35 more | 117 min |
| Jun 2, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Austin, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco and 37 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 2, 5:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Austin, Bandera, Bastrop, Bee, Bexar and 35 more | 62 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.