Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 482
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 5, 2003, 9:50 AM CDT for 23 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 2003, 9:50 AM CDT (14:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2003, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties
Austin County, TX, Brazoria County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Colorado County, TX, DeWitt County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Fort Bend County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Hardin County, TX, Harris County, TX, Jackson County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Liberty County, TX, Matagorda County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Polk County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, Victoria County, TX, Walker County, TX, Waller County, TX, Washington County, TX, Wharton County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:52 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.
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 2833 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 584 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
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, 6:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Burleson, Burnet, Coryell, Falls, Limestone and 4 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 5, 9:00 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Burleson, Burnet, Coryell, Falls, Freestone and 5 more | 60 min |
| 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.