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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 469

June 2, 20035 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 2, 2003, 10:05 PM MDT for 5 states. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 2, 2003, 10:05 PM MDT (04:05 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 2003, 3:00 AM MDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 41 counties

Baca County, CO, Bent County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Kiowa County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero County, CO, Prowers County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Hamilton County, KS, Morton County, KS, Stanton County, KS, Union County, NM, Cimarron County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Motley County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Swisher County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:08 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 2, 10:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBKiowa36 min
Jun 2, 10:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCHamilton54 min
Jun 2, 10:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBBent, Prowers62 min
Jun 2, 11:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPUBOtero, Pueblo56 min
Jun 2, 11:45 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningAMARandall4 hr

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 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 175 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 00:00Z on 2003-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 127 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 00:00Z on 2003-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 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
127 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-156 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2378 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
123 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, 7:31 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, El Paso, Kiowa and 5 more89 min
Jun 3, 12:06 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca114 min
Jun 3, 12:34 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCurry, Harding, Mora, Quay, Roosevelt116 min
Jun 3, 2:20 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCCurry, Harding, Quay, Roosevelt6 hr
Jun 3, 2:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCLea5 hr
Jun 2, 6:02 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtascosa, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, DeWitt, Fort Bend and 12 more118 min
Jun 3, 4:48 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArmstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens and 11 more117 min
Jun 3, 12:02 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBandera, Blanco, Comal, Edwards, Gillespie, Hays and 8 more118 min
Jun 3, 12:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Caldwell and 18 more6 hr
Jun 3, 3:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBee, Brooks, Cameron, Dimmit, Duval, Hidalgo and 13 more5 hr
Jun 3, 4:43 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Caldwell and 15 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.