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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 459

June 1, 2003Lea County, Roosevelt County, New Mexico; 30 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 1, 2003, 7:30 PM MDT for Lea County, Roosevelt County, New Mexico; 30 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 1, 2003, 7:30 PM MDT (01:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 2003, 12:00 AM MDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 32 counties

Lea County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Borden County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Loving County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Terry County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 7:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFHoward30 min
Jun 1, 7:36 PM MDTTornado WarningMAFMartin24 min
Jun 1, 7:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSterling44 min
Jun 1, 8:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSterling33 min
Jun 1, 11:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCoke, Sterling45 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 124 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2003-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1772 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2003-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 43 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
1772 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2629 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
162 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
8.9

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 8:49 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLea116 min
Jun 2, 2:06 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCColfax, Union114 min
Jun 2, 5:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCColfax, Guadalupe, Harding, Mora, Quay, San Miguel and 1 more5 hr
Jun 1, 6:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Childress, Clay, Collingsworth, Cooke and 19 more7 hr
Jun 1, 8:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBell, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Callahan, Coke and 51 more5 hr
Jun 1, 8:25 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaylor, Knox, Wichita, Wilbarger95 min
Jun 1, 9:16 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Eastland and 8 more59 min
Jun 1, 10:18 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBorden, Crane, Ector, Glasscock, Howard, Martin and 5 more87 min
Jun 1, 10:30 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBosque, Brown, Comanche, Concho, Coryell, Erath and 16 more2 hr
Jun 2, 12:42 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBell, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Coleman, Comanche and 28 more63 min
Jun 2, 10:35 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Bell, Blanco, Burleson, Burnet, Cherokee and 34 more2 hr
Jun 2, 11:10 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAnderson, Angelina, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown and 39 more6 hr
Jun 2, 1:03 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Angelina, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Burnet and 35 more117 min
Jun 2, 2:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtascosa, Austin, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco and 37 more5 hr
Jun 2, 4:28 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtascosa, Austin, Bandera, Bastrop, Bee, Bexar and 35 more62 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.