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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 470

June 3, 200324 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 3, 2003, 1:25 PM CDT for 24 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 3, 2003, 1:25 PM CDT (18:25 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 2003, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 24 counties

Atascosa County, TX, Bandera County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Comal County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Frio County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Medina County, TX, Real County, TX, Travis County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Victoria County, TX, Wilson County, TX, Zavala County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:26 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 1:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKendall65 min
Jun 3, 2:03 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXKendall3 hr
Jun 3, 2:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBandera45 min
Jun 3, 2:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXMedina60 min
Jun 3, 3:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBexar60 min
Jun 3, 3:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXWilson51 min
Jun 3, 3:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXMedina43 min
Jun 3, 3:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXAtascosa69 min
Jun 3, 3:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBexar34 min
Jun 3, 3:58 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXWilson62 min
Jun 3, 4:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXFrio59 min
Jun 3, 4:36 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXAtascosa24 min
Jun 3, 5:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXAtascosa28 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

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 191 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, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2003-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2861 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, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2003-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 62 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
2861 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-183 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
887 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.5

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 7:02 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtascosa, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, DeWitt, Fort Bend and 12 more118 min
Jun 2, 8:31 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDallam, Deaf Smith, Hartley, Oldham89 min
Jun 2, 11:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArmstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress and 21 more5 hr
Jun 3, 1:06 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArmstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress, Cottle and 18 more114 min
Jun 3, 5:48 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArmstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens and 11 more117 min
Jun 3, 1:02 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBandera, Blanco, Comal, Edwards, Gillespie, Hays and 8 more118 min
Jun 3, 1:34 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBailey, Castro, Cochran, Crosby, Deaf Smith, Hale and 9 more116 min
Jun 3, 3:20 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBailey, Borden, Callahan, Castro, Cochran, Coke and 33 more6 hr
Jun 3, 3:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAndrews, Crane, Crockett, Ector, Edwards, Gaines and 13 more5 hr
Jun 3, 4:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBee, Brooks, Cameron, Dimmit, Duval, Hidalgo and 13 more5 hr
Jun 3, 5:43 PM CDTMesoscale 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.