Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 473
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 3, 2003, 4:40 PM CDT for 19 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 2003, 4:40 PM CDT (21:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2003, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Bee County, TX, Brooks County, TX, Cameron County, TX, Dimmit County, TX, Duval County, TX, Hidalgo County, TX, Jim Hogg County, TX, Jim Wells County, TX, Kenedy County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, La Salle County, TX, Live Oak County, TX, McMullen County, TX, Nueces County, TX, San Patricio County, TX, Starr County, TX, Webb County, TX, Willacy County, TX, Zapata County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Live Oak, McMullen | 63 min |
| Jun 3, 6:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval | 57 min |
| Jun 3, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Webb | 52 min |
| Jun 3, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Jim Hogg, Zapata | 73 min |
| Jun 3, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Zapata | 62 min |
| Jun 3, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Starr, Zapata | 75 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 100 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2500 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 748 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 7:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, DeWitt, Fort Bend and 12 more | 118 min |
| Jun 2, 8:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hartley, Oldham | 89 min |
| Jun 2, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress and 21 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 3, 1:06 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress, Cottle and 18 more | 114 min |
| Jun 3, 5:48 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens and 11 more | 117 min |
| Jun 3, 1:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Blanco, Comal, Edwards, Gillespie, Hays and 8 more | 118 min |
| Jun 3, 1:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Caldwell and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 3, 1:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Crosby, Deaf Smith, Hale and 9 more | 116 min |
| Jun 3, 3:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bailey, Borden, Callahan, Castro, Cochran, Coke and 33 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 3, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Crane, Crockett, Ector, Edwards, Gaines and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 3, 5:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Caldwell and 15 more | 62 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.