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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 529

June 12, 20035 counties in Oklahoma; 35 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 12, 2003, 3:30 PM CDT for 5 counties in Oklahoma; 35 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 12, 2003, 3:30 PM CDT (20:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2003, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 40 counties

Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Archer County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Brown County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Childress County, TX, Clay County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Erath County, TX, Foard County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Hood County, TX, Jack County, TX, Jones County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Mills County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Parker County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Stephens County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Throckmorton County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Young County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 5:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNArcher37 min
Jun 12, 5:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung52 min
Jun 12, 5:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNArcher47 min
Jun 12, 5:59 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDYoung61 min
Jun 12, 6:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNBaylor39 min
Jun 12, 6:34 PM CDTTornado WarningSJTThrockmorton41 min
Jun 12, 6:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack56 min
Jun 12, 6:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung64 min
Jun 12, 7:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung47 min
Jun 12, 8:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto61 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

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 166 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, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2003-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 11 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Worth, TX at 12:00Z on 2003-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 68 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 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
11 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-462 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2219 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
265 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 7:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlfalfa, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 28 more6 hr
Jun 11, 10:15 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlfalfa, Atoka, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian and 31 more60 min
Jun 11, 10:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdair, Atoka, Cherokee, Choctaw, Craig, Creek and 23 more5 hr
Jun 12, 12:14 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLatimer, LeFlore, McCurtain, Pushmataha2 hr
Jun 12, 1:30 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCJefferson, Love, Tillman2 hr
Jun 12, 5:59 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCimarron91 min
Jun 11, 7:13 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBorden, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett and 29 more62 min
Jun 11, 8:04 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Caldwell and 27 more86 min
Jun 11, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Clay, Coleman and 29 more6 hr
Jun 11, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBell, Bosque, Collin, Coryell, Dallas, Denton and 19 more5 hr
Jun 11, 11:10 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArcher, Baylor, Brown, Callahan, Clay, Coleman and 29 more65 min
Jun 11, 11:49 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBell, Bosque, Collin, Coryell, Dallas, Denton and 20 more86 min
Jun 12, 12:30 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Angelina, Austin, Brazos, Burleson, Camp and 34 more2 hr
Jun 12, 1:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAnderson, Angelina, Austin, Bowie, Brazoria, Brazos and 39 more4 hr
Jun 12, 4:20 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAngelina, Austin, Brazoria, Cass, Colorado, Fort Bend and 21 more55 min
Jun 12, 1:31 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrazos, Burleson, Grimes, Jasper, Montgomery, Newton and 5 more119 min
Jun 12, 1:56 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Concho, Eastland and 11 more2 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.