Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 475
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 3, 2003, 9:05 PM CDT for 24 counties in Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 2003, 9:05 PM CDT (02:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2003, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 24 counties
Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 5 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 52 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 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 919 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1137 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 433 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 6.8
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 7:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Callahan, Castro and 57 more | 55 min |
| Jun 3, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bandera, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Callahan and 38 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 3, 11:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bandera, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet and 35 more | 113 min |
| Jun 4, 12:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atascosa, Austin, Bastrop, Bexar, Brazos, Burleson and 23 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 4, 1:34 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress, Collingsworth and 23 more | 116 min |
| Jun 4, 2:52 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson, Colorado, DeWitt and 12 more | 83 min |
| Jun 4, 12:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bailey, Cochran, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hartley, Oldham and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 3:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hartley and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 4, 3:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hartley, Oldham | 93 min |
| Jun 4, 6:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran, Cottle and 25 more | 89 min |
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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.