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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 460

June 1, 200357 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 1, 2003, 9:05 PM CDT for 57 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 1, 2003, 9:05 PM CDT (02:05 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 2003, 2:00 AM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 57 counties

Bell County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Brown County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Concho County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Denton County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Falls County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jack County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Llano County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Menard County, TX, Milam County, TX, Mills County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wise County, TX, Young County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 9:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSterling33 min
Jun 1, 9:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTom Green57 min
Jun 1, 9:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTConcho57 min
Jun 1, 9:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTRunnels48 min
Jun 1, 10:34 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTTom Green5 hr
Jun 1, 10:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTConcho63 min
Jun 1, 11:12 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTConcho6 hr
Jun 2, 12:45 AM CDTSevere 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

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 210 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2003-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2406 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, Fort Worth, TX at 00:00Z on 2003-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 2 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2406 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1783 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
5 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
Jun 1, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Childress, Clay, Collingsworth, Cooke and 19 more7 hr
Jun 1, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAndrews, Bailey, Borden, Cochran, Crane, Crosby and 24 more5 hr
Jun 1, 9:25 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaylor, Knox, Wichita, Wilbarger95 min
Jun 1, 9:49 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAndrews, Borden, Crane, Crosby, Dawson, Ector and 18 more116 min
Jun 1, 10:16 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Eastland and 8 more59 min
Jun 1, 11:18 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBorden, Crane, Ector, Glasscock, Howard, Martin and 5 more87 min
Jun 1, 11:30 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBosque, Brown, Comanche, Concho, Coryell, Erath and 16 more2 hr
Jun 2, 1:42 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBell, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Coleman, Comanche and 28 more63 min
Jun 2, 11:35 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Bell, Blanco, Burleson, Burnet, Cherokee and 34 more2 hr
Jun 2, 12:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAnderson, Angelina, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown and 39 more6 hr
Jun 2, 2:03 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Angelina, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Burnet and 35 more117 min
Jun 2, 3:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtascosa, Austin, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco and 37 more5 hr
Jun 2, 5:28 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtascosa, Austin, Bandera, Bastrop, Bee, Bexar and 35 more62 min
Jun 2, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCDallam, Deaf Smith, Hartley, Oldham5 hr

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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.