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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 486

June 7, 200329 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 7, 2003, 7:00 PM CDT for 29 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 7, 2003, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2003, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 29 counties

Baylor County, TX, Borden County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Concho County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	58 min
Jun 7, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Irion, Sterling, Tom Green	63 min
Jun 7, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	43 min
Jun 7, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher, Nolan	57 min
Jun 7, 8:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Sterling	3 hr
Jun 7, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Sterling	65 min
Jun 7, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Tom Green	56 min
Jun 7, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Nolan, Taylor	64 min
Jun 7, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke	74 min
Jun 7, 9:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Coke	3 hr
Jun 7, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Sterling	14 min
Jun 7, 9:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Runnels	88 min
Jun 7, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell	53 min
Jun 7, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Coke	63 min
Jun 7, 10:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Tom Green	44 min
Jun 7, 10:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Nolan	39 min
Jun 7, 10:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Nolan	3 hr
Jun 7, 10:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Taylor	67 min
Jun 7, 10:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	32 min
Jun 7, 10:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Concho	61 min
Jun 7, 10:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Fisher, Jones	92 min
Jun 7, 11:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	Wilbarger	41 min
Jun 7, 11:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Callahan	79 min
Jun 7, 11:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	SJT	Jones	3 hr
Jun 8, 12:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Haskell	57 min
Jun 8, 12:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	SJT	Shackelford	59 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, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 144 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 585 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -62 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3200 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 9:35 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Irion, McCulloch and 8 more	115 min
Jun 7, 11:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Coke, Coleman, Concho, Glasscock, Howard, McCulloch and 9 more	113 min
Jun 8, 12:51 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Andrews, Archer, Baylor, Borden, Bosque, Brown and 62 more	54 min
Jun 8, 10:21 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bandera, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Brazos, Burleson and 21 more	114 min
Jun 8, 5:38 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brewster, Jeff Davis, Pecos, Presidio, Terrell	3 hr
Jun 8, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Brewster, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Pecos, Presidio, Reeves and 1 more	6 hr

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.