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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 498
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 9, 2003, 7:30 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico; 20 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 2003, 7:30 PM MDT (01:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2003, 1:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 21 counties
Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Crane County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Loving County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Terry County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:33 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
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 8:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 61 min |
| Jun 9, 8:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Ward | 64 min |
| Jun 9, 8:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland, Upton | 61 min |
| Jun 9, 8:50 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Crane, Pecos | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 8:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Martin | 80 min |
| Jun 9, 9:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 50 min |
| Jun 9, 9:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 49 min |
| Jun 9, 9:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 40 min |
| Jun 9, 9:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson, Gaines | 54 min |
| Jun 9, 9:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Howard | 74 min |
| Jun 9, 9:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 30 min |
| Jun 9, 9:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden | 62 min |
| Jun 9, 11:01 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 119 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 7:13 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lea | 92 min |
| Jun 9, 6:35 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Cochran, Crosby and 20 more | 115 min |
| Jun 9, 8:00 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Collingsworth, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Wheeler | 60 min |
| Jun 9, 9:56 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Borden, Crane, Crockett, Crosby, Dawson, Ector and 18 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 10, 7:46 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aransas, Bee, Brooks, Calhoun, DeWitt, Duval and 15 more | 119 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New Mexico, 2003Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2003
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.