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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 479

June 4, 2003Lea County, Roosevelt County, New Mexico; 27 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 4, 2003, 7:55 PM MDT for Lea County, Roosevelt County, New Mexico; 27 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 4, 2003, 7:55 PM MDT (01:55 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2003, 1:00 AM MDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 29 counties

Lea County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Borden County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Howard County, TX, Kent County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Motley County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:58 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 8:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey63 min
Jun 4, 8:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey60 min
Jun 4, 8:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHale63 min
Jun 4, 8:46 PM MDTTornado WarningABQRoosevelt29 min
Jun 4, 8:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQRoosevelt54 min
Jun 4, 9:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd58 min
Jun 4, 9:06 PM MDTTornado WarningABQRoosevelt39 min
Jun 4, 9:07 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningLUBHale3 hr
Jun 4, 9:07 PM MDTTornado WarningLUBBailey23 min
Jun 4, 9:14 PM MDTTornado WarningLUBCochran61 min
Jun 4, 9:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLubbock54 min
Jun 4, 9:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBailey28 min
Jun 4, 9:43 PM MDTTornado WarningABQRoosevelt47 min
Jun 4, 9:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby62 min
Jun 4, 9:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea52 min
Jun 4, 10:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd45 min
Jun 4, 10:04 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningLUBFloyd116 min
Jun 4, 10:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBMotley63 min
Jun 4, 10:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens60 min
Jun 4, 10:16 PM MDTTornado WarningLUBCochran44 min
Jun 4, 10:36 PM MDTTornado WarningLUBYoakum39 min
Jun 4, 10:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby45 min
Jun 4, 10:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza59 min
Jun 4, 10:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens23 min
Jun 4, 11:04 PM MDTTornado WarningLUBTerry41 min
Jun 4, 11:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent55 min
Jun 4, 11:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines65 min
Jun 4, 11:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFDawson63 min
Jun 4, 11:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens30 min
Jun 4, 11:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFScurry63 min
Jun 4, 11:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTFisher73 min
Jun 4, 11:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTNolan79 min
Jun 5, 12:00 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent30 min
Jun 5, 12:02 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBStonewall58 min
Jun 5, 12:20 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMitchell60 min
Jun 5, 12:23 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMartin52 min
Jun 5, 12:45 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTFisher60 min
Jun 5, 12:48 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFHoward57 min
Jun 5, 12:55 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFHoward4 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 182 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2003-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1942 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2003-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 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
1942 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-114 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2141 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
146 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.4

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 7:24 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCurry, Lea, Roosevelt66 min
Jun 4, 9:55 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLea, Roosevelt95 min
Jun 5, 1:18 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChaves, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Lea and 4 more117 min
Jun 5, 2:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCChaves, Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Quay and 1 more6 hr
Jun 4, 11:58 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAndrews, Borden, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Dawson and 19 more62 min
Jun 5, 12:20 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBrown, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho, Glasscock and 9 more6 hr
Jun 5, 1:22 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Eastland and 13 more83 min
Jun 5, 3:40 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBosque, Brown, Burnet, Comanche, Coryell, Erath and 9 more95 min
Jun 5, 5:35 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBell, Burleson, Burnet, Coryell, Falls, Limestone and 4 more4 hr
Jun 5, 8:00 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBell, Burleson, Burnet, Coryell, Falls, Freestone and 5 more60 min
Jun 5, 8:50 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAustin, Brazoria, Calhoun, Colorado, DeWitt, Fayette and 17 more5 hr
Jun 5, 11:03 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAustin, Brazoria, Calhoun, Colorado, DeWitt, Fayette and 15 more57 min
Jun 5, 12:29 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrooks, Cameron, Duval, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells and 8 more91 min
Jun 5, 4:17 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCarson, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hemphill, Hutchinson and 4 more88 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New Mexico, 2003Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2003

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.