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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 533

June 13, 200337 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 13, 2003, 12:15 PM CDT for 37 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 13, 2003, 12:15 PM CDT (17:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2003, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 37 counties

Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Brown County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Comanche County, TX, Concho County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Ector County, TX, Erath County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Howard County, TX, Jones County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, McCulloch County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mills County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Runnels County, TX, San Saba County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Taylor County, TX, Terry County, TX, Tom Green County, TX, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:17 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 12:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTCallahan55 min
Jun 13, 1:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMitchell48 min
Jun 13, 1:28 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTCoke3 hr
Jun 13, 2:04 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTBrown3 hr
Jun 13, 2:21 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFMitchell3 hr
Jun 13, 2:26 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFGlasscock3 hr
Jun 13, 2:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMidland53 min
Jun 13, 2:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFMidland3 hr
Jun 13, 2:45 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTNolan, Taylor5 hr
Jun 13, 2:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGlasscock61 min
Jun 13, 3:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMartin59 min
Jun 13, 3:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFHoward37 min
Jun 13, 3:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMidland64 min
Jun 13, 3:20 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFHoward4 hr
Jun 13, 3:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFHoward60 min
Jun 13, 3:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDHamilton55 min
Jun 13, 3:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMartin33 min
Jun 13, 3:59 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTCoke3 hr
Jun 13, 4:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFDawson56 min
Jun 13, 4:06 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSJTSterling3 hr
Jun 13, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMidland31 min
Jun 13, 4:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMidland80 min
Jun 13, 4:45 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFMartin2 hr
Jun 13, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews52 min
Jun 13, 5:23 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFGaines52 min
Jun 13, 5:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFDawson58 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 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 122 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2003-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1071 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2003-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 37 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 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
1071 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-199 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2165 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.5

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 7:13 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArcher, Baylor, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Childress and 29 more92 min
Jun 12, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCChambers, Fort Bend, Grimes, Hardin, Harris, Jasper and 10 more5 hr
Jun 12, 9:51 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChambers, Fort Bend, Grimes, Hardin, Harris, Jasper and 10 more54 min
Jun 13, 12:02 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArcher, Baylor, Clay, Collin, Cooke, Dallas and 20 more88 min
Jun 13, 1:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArcher, Armstrong, Baylor, Briscoe, Carson, Childress and 18 more5 hr
Jun 13, 5:11 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArcher, Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Denton, Hardeman and 7 more64 min
Jun 13, 10:26 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCoke, Concho, Crockett, Irion, McCulloch, Menard and 3 more94 min
Jun 13, 12:16 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCHardin, Jasper, Newton, Orange, Sabine, Tyler119 min
Jun 13, 2:21 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBastrop, Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Hardin, Harris and 14 more54 min
Jun 13, 2:56 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAndrews, Borden, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 20 more2 hr
Jun 13, 3:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAustin, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Brazos and 40 more5 hr
Jun 13, 3:20 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArmstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress, Collingsworth and 21 more85 min
Jun 13, 3:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArmstrong, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith and 15 more5 hr
Jun 13, 4:54 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAustin, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Brazos and 42 more96 min
Jun 13, 5:13 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAndrews, Bailey, Cochran, Crane, Dawson, Ector and 11 more62 min
Jun 13, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAndrews, Bailey, Borden, Castro, Cochran, Coke and 29 more5 hr
Jun 13, 6:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAransas, Atascosa, Bee, Calhoun, DeWitt, Duval and 15 more5 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.