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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 462

June 2, 200345 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 2, 2003, 12:10 PM CDT for 45 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 2, 2003, 12:10 PM CDT (17:10 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 2003, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 45 counties

Anderson County, TX, Angelina County, TX, Bell County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Brown County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Falls County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Houston County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Llano County, TX, Madison County, TX, Marion County, TX, Mason County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Mills County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Panola County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Rusk County, TX, Sabine County, TX, San Augustine County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Shelby County, TX, Smith County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Williamson County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 1:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTSan Saba60 min
Jun 2, 1:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCoryell63 min
Jun 2, 1:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMills45 min
Jun 2, 1:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXLlano61 min
Jun 2, 1:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTMason31 min
Jun 2, 2:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBlanco, Gillespie, Llano61 min
Jun 2, 2:38 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXBlanco, Llano52 min
Jun 2, 2:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXSan Jacinto, Trinity, Walker56 min
Jun 2, 2:57 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXBurnet33 min
Jun 2, 3:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGillespie, Kendall55 min
Jun 2, 3:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBlanco, Hays, Travis60 min
Jun 2, 5:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHouston, Madison53 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

Shreveport, LA (KSHV), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 348 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, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2003-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1041 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, Shreveport, LA at 12:00Z on 2003-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 81 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
1041 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
944 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
2.4

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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, 9:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBell, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Callahan, Coke and 51 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, 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

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.