Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 490
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 8, 2003, 6:25 PM CDT for 7 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 2003, 6:25 PM CDT (23:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2003, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Brewster County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Presidio County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Terrell County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 185 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -407 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 874 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 342 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 768 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.7
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baylor, Borden, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho and 23 more | 6 hr |
| 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 |
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.