Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 485
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 5, 2003, 11:55 PM CDT for 15 counties in Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 2003, 11:55 PM CDT (04:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2003, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Coke County, TX, Crane County, TX, Ector County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Upton County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:59 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.
Warnings issued inside it
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 12:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 50 min |
| Jun 6, 12:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector | 2 hr |
| Jun 6, 12:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 58 min |
| Jun 6, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Tom Green | 45 min |
| Jun 6, 2:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Schleicher | 58 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, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 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
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Castro, Childress and 23 more | 84 min |
| Jun 5, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Briscoe, Cochran, Crosby and 20 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 5, 11:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Coke, Crane, Dawson, Ector and 11 more | 83 min |
| Jun 6, 2:20 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burnet, Concho, Crockett, Edwards, Gillespie, Irion and 10 more | 55 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.