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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 477

June 4, 20036 counties in Colorado; 7 counties in New Mexico

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 4, 2003, 11:30 AM MDT for 6 counties in Colorado; 7 counties in New Mexico. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 4, 2003, 11:30 AM MDT (17:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 2003, 5:00 PM MDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Bent County, CO, Crowley County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Otero 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

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 1:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax40 min
Jun 4, 2:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax29 min
Jun 4, 2:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQUnion51 min
Jun 4, 3:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQColfax, Harding, Mora60 min
Jun 4, 3:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQUnion30 min
Jun 4, 3:57 PM MDTTornado WarningABQHarding, Mora43 min
Jun 4, 4:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQQuay52 min
Jun 4, 4:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQSan Miguel53 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

Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM (KABQ), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 252 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, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2003-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 17 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albuquerq/Krtlnd, NM at 12:00Z on 2003-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 128 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
17 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-305 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2554 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
128 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
171 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 3, 8:41 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Cheyenne, Crowley, El Paso, Huerfano and 6 more2 hr
Jun 4, 12:34 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca116 min
Jun 4, 11:12 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Las Animas2 hr
Jun 4, 2:20 PM MDTTornado WatchSPCBaca, Bent, Crowley, Las Animas, Otero, Prowers and 1 more6 hr
Jun 4, 2:27 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBent, Crowley, Huerfano, Las Animas, Otero, Pueblo93 min
Jun 4, 5:31 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaca, Bent, Las Animas, Otero, Prowers, Pueblo89 min
Jun 3, 6:50 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCurry, Harding, Lea, Quay, Roosevelt55 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.