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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 484

June 5, 20034 counties in New Mexico; 26 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 5, 2003, 6:55 PM MDT for 4 counties in New Mexico; 26 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 2003, 6:55 PM MDT (00:55 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 2003, 12:00 AM MDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 30 counties

Chaves County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Borden County, TX, Briscoe 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, Hall County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Howard County, TX, Kent County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Motley County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:56 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 7:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBBriscoe49 min
Jun 5, 7:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBFloyd, Hale44 min
Jun 5, 7:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy56 min
Jun 5, 7:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHockley64 min
Jun 5, 7:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBHall60 min
Jun 5, 7:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLubbock57 min
Jun 5, 7:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCochran56 min
Jun 5, 7:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea63 min
Jun 5, 8:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy, Lea58 min
Jun 5, 8:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCrosby63 min
Jun 5, 8:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBYoakum33 min
Jun 5, 8:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBTerry28 min
Jun 5, 8:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBGarza58 min
Jun 5, 8:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea62 min
Jun 5, 9:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLynn45 min
Jun 5, 9:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBDickens58 min
Jun 5, 9:06 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningLUBDickens114 min
Jun 5, 9:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFDawson74 min
Jun 5, 9:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBKent53 min
Jun 5, 9:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines61 min
Jun 5, 10:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMartin53 min
Jun 5, 10:25 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFGaines3 hr
Jun 5, 10:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews56 min
Jun 5, 10:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTFisher56 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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 186 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 2003-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 887 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 2003-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 31 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
887 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-104 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1861 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
204 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.9

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 6:36 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLea, Roosevelt84 min
Jun 5, 10:07 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAndrews, Borden, Coke, Crane, Dawson, Ector and 11 more83 min
Jun 5, 10:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCoke, Crane, Ector, Glasscock, Howard, Irion and 9 more4 hr
Jun 6, 1:20 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBurnet, Concho, Crockett, Edwards, Gillespie, Irion and 10 more55 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.