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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 483

June 5, 20037 counties in New Mexico; 15 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 5, 2003, 2:30 PM MDT for 7 counties in New Mexico; 15 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 2003, 2:30 PM MDT (20:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2003, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 22 counties

Chaves County, NM, Curry County, NM, De Baca County, NM, Guadalupe County, NM, Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Bailey County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 2:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMASherman63 min
Jun 5, 4:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQHarding, Quay, San Miguel61 min
Jun 5, 4:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAOldham53 min
Jun 5, 4:53 PM MDTTornado WarningABQQuay37 min
Jun 5, 5:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQGuadalupe43 min
Jun 5, 5:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca39 min
Jun 5, 5:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMADeaf Smith, Randall50 min
Jun 5, 5:27 PM MDTTornado WarningABQCurry, Quay48 min
Jun 5, 5:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca, Guadalupe44 min
Jun 5, 6:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQQuay56 min
Jun 5, 6:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBParmer48 min
Jun 5, 6:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry61 min
Jun 5, 6:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQDe Baca59 min
Jun 5, 6:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLamb42 min
Jun 5, 6:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCastro41 min
Jun 5, 7:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley64 min
Jun 5, 7:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCochran56 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 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 209 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2003-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2003-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 13 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
540 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
192 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 4, 7:24 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCurry, Lea, Roosevelt66 min
Jun 4, 7:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCLea, Roosevelt5 hr
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 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

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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.