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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 464

June 2, 200343 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 2, 2003, 3:00 PM CDT for 43 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 2, 2003, 3:00 PM CDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 2003, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 43 counties

Atascosa County, TX, Austin County, TX, Bandera County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Brazoria County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Colorado County, TX, Comal County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Fort Bend County, TX, Frio County, TX, Galveston County, TX, Goliad County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Harris County, TX, Hays County, TX, Jackson County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, La Salle County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Lee County, TX, Liberty County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Medina County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Polk County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, Travis County, TX, Victoria County, TX, Walker County, TX, Waller County, TX, Washington County, TX, Wharton County, TX, Wilson County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:03 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 3:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXLiberty, Polk30 min
Jun 2, 3:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGillespie, Kendall55 min
Jun 2, 3:23 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXKendall67 min
Jun 2, 3:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBlanco, Hays, Travis60 min
Jun 2, 3:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXLiberty56 min
Jun 2, 4:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBexar, Comal55 min
Jun 2, 4:20 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXLiberty40 min
Jun 2, 4:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXCaldwell, Hays64 min
Jun 2, 4:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGuadalupe53 min
Jun 2, 4:41 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningHGXLiberty2 hr
Jun 2, 4:59 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXLiberty46 min
Jun 2, 5:11 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXBexar34 min
Jun 2, 5:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXGonzales56 min
Jun 2, 5:46 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXLiberty44 min
Jun 2, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHarris65 min
Jun 2, 7:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXDeWitt, Lavaca26 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

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 219 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2003-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1486 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, Corpus Christi, TX at 12:00Z on 2003-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1486 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
663 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.2

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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, 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, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.