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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 534

June 13, 200346 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 13, 2003, 3:00 PM CDT for 46 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 13, 2003, 3:00 PM CDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2003, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 46 counties

Austin County, TX, Bandera County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Chambers County, TX, Colorado County, TX, Comal County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Fayette County, TX, Fort Bend County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Grimes County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hardin County, TX, Harris County, TX, Hays County, TX, Jasper County, TX, Jefferson County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Kerr County, TX, Kimble County, TX, Kinney County, TX, Lavaca County, TX, Lee County, TX, Liberty County, TX, Medina County, TX, Montgomery County, TX, Newton County, TX, Orange County, TX, Polk County, TX, Real County, TX, San Jacinto County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Travis County, TX, Tyler County, TX, Uvalde County, TX, Val Verde County, TX, Walker County, TX, Waller County, TX, Washington County, TX, Williamson County, TX

The radar

The Austin/San Antonio radar (KEWX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 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

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 3:16 PM CDTTornado WarningEWXKendall44 min
Jun 13, 3:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXBrazos, Burleson40 min
Jun 13, 3:26 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXBrazos, Burleson49 min
Jun 13, 3:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXComal59 min
Jun 13, 3:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXHays62 min
Jun 13, 4:13 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXBrazos32 min
Jun 13, 4:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXTravis, Williamson60 min
Jun 13, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXSan Jacinto, Walker32 min
Jun 13, 4:32 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXVal Verde118 min
Jun 13, 4:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBastrop, Caldwell, Guadalupe64 min
Jun 13, 4:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXKinney, Maverick73 min
Jun 13, 4:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXGrimes49 min
Jun 13, 5:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXLee57 min
Jun 13, 5:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLCHHardin67 min
Jun 13, 5:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXPolk31 min
Jun 13, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXBurleson, Washington60 min
Jun 13, 5:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXFayette56 min
Jun 13, 5:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXLiberty26 min
Jun 13, 6:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXBrazos66 min
Jun 13, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXAustin, Colorado50 min
Jun 13, 6:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXBurleson34 min
Jun 13, 6:26 PM CDTTornado WarningHGXWashington34 min
Jun 13, 6:31 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXBandera, Bexar, Blanco, Comal, Gillespie, Hays and 4 more3 hr
Jun 13, 6:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXMedina58 min
Jun 13, 6:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXGrimes42 min
Jun 13, 6:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXAustin, Waller65 min
Jun 13, 7:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHGXHarris61 min
Jun 13, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBexar, Comal, Guadalupe60 min
Jun 13, 7:55 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningEWXAtascosa, Guadalupe, Wilson3 hr

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 254 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, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2003-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3986 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, Del Rio, TX at 12:00Z on 2003-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 93 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
3986 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
609 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.3
Supercell composite
9.4

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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, 12:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAndrews, Borden, Brown, Burnet, Callahan, Coke and 31 more6 hr
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, 3:20 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.