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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 467

June 2, 20034 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 2, 2003, 5:00 PM MDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 2, 2003, 5:00 PM MDT (23:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 2003, 10:00 PM MDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties

Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Cheyenne County, CO, Crowley County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Colfax County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Mora County, NM, Quay County, NM, San Miguel County, NM, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Oldham County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 5:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax53 min
Jun 2, 5:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQUnion58 min
Jun 2, 6:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQUnion60 min
Jun 2, 7:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADallam, Hartley84 min
Jun 2, 8:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAHartley44 min
Jun 2, 8:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, Union52 min
Jun 2, 9:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQQuay23 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 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 234 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2003-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2003-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1482 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 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 2, 12:26 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBent, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Prowers2 hr
Jun 2, 2:06 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBent, Crowley, Custer, Huerfano, Las Animas, Otero and 2 more114 min
Jun 1, 7:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCLea, Roosevelt5 hr
Jun 1, 8:49 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLea116 min
Jun 1, 6:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian and 41 more7 hr
Jun 1, 7:10 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeaver, Harper65 min
Jun 1, 8:25 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBeckham, Comanche, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Harper and 6 more95 min
Jun 1, 10:44 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cleveland and 22 more91 min
Jun 1, 11:27 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Cherokee, Creek, Delaware, Garfield, Haskell and 25 more63 min
Jun 1, 11:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdair, Atoka, Cherokee, Cleveland, Coal, Creek and 34 more5 hr
Jun 2, 1:53 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdair, Cherokee, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Haskell and 16 more2 hr
Jun 2, 1:07 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLeFlore, McCurtain, Pushmataha113 min
Jun 1, 8:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBell, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Callahan, Coke and 51 more5 hr
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.