Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 481
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 5, 2003, 6:35 AM CDT for 10 counties in Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 2003, 6:35 AM CDT (11:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2003, 11:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Bell County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Falls County, TX, Limestone County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Williamson County, TX
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 5, 7:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coryell | 57 min |
| Jun 5, 7:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 50 min |
| Jun 5, 7:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | McLennan | 55 min |
| Jun 5, 8:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 47 min |
| Jun 5, 8:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls | 58 min |
| Jun 5, 9:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Burleson | 44 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
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 1300 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1529 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 5.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 8:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Castro, Cochran and 28 more | 66 min |
| Jun 4, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Cochran, Crosby, Dawson and 21 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 4, 10:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Archer, Bailey, Baylor, Borden, Briscoe and 39 more | 95 min |
| Jun 5, 12:58 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Dawson and 19 more | 62 min |
| Jun 5, 1:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Coke, Coleman, Comanche, Concho, Glasscock and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 5, 2:22 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Eastland and 13 more | 83 min |
| Jun 5, 4:40 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Comanche, Coryell, Erath and 9 more | 95 min |
| Jun 5, 9:00 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Burleson, Burnet, Coryell, Falls, Freestone and 5 more | 60 min |
| Jun 5, 9:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Austin, Brazoria, Calhoun, Colorado, DeWitt, Fayette and 17 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 5, 12:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Brazoria, Calhoun, Colorado, DeWitt, Fayette and 15 more | 57 min |
| Jun 5, 1:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brooks, Cameron, Duval, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells and 8 more | 91 min |
| Jun 5, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bailey, Castro, Cochran, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Hartley and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 5, 5:17 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Hemphill, Hutchinson and 4 more | 88 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.