Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 536
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 13, 2003, 2:40 PM MDT for Harding County, Quay County, Union County, New Mexico; 16 counties in Oklahoma; 21 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 2003, 2:40 PM MDT (20:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2003, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 40 counties
Harding County, NM, Quay County, NM, Union County, NM, Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Cimarron County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Ellis County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Major County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK, Woodward County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Carson County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 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
17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 4:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Lipscomb | 59 min |
| Jun 13, 5:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Oldham | 58 min |
| Jun 13, 5:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Quay | 39 min |
| Jun 13, 5:33 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Lipscomb, Ochiltree | 2 hr |
| Jun 13, 5:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford | 66 min |
| Jun 13, 5:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hemphill | 62 min |
| Jun 13, 6:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Oldham | 57 min |
| Jun 13, 6:16 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Hemphill | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 6:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore | 63 min |
| Jun 13, 7:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 54 min |
| Jun 13, 7:10 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Oldham | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 7:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith | 57 min |
| Jun 13, 7:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Gray | 63 min |
| Jun 13, 7:38 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | AMA | Deaf Smith | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 7:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Roger Mills | 46 min |
| Jun 13, 7:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Randall | 66 min |
| Jun 13, 7:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter | 62 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
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -335 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1909 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 227 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 1:10 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Harding, Quay, Roosevelt and 2 more | 95 min |
| Jun 13, 4:13 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Curry, De Baca, Eddy, Lea, Roosevelt | 62 min |
| Jun 13, 4:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Curry, De Baca, Lea, Roosevelt | 5 hr |
| Jun 12, 6:13 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Comanche, Cotton, Harmon, Jackson, Tillman | 92 min |
| Jun 12, 11:02 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Carter, Cotton, Jefferson, Love, Marshall and 2 more | 88 min |
| Jun 13, 12:10 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beckham, Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 13, 4:11 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Comanche, Cotton, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Jefferson and 2 more | 64 min |
| Jun 13, 2:20 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Caddo, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Greer and 6 more | 85 min |
| Jun 13, 5:44 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Canadian, Cherokee, Cleveland, Creek, Grady, Haskell and 18 more | 91 min |
| Jun 12, 7:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chambers, Fort Bend, Grimes, Hardin, Harris, Jasper and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 12, 8:51 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chambers, Fort Bend, Grimes, Hardin, Harris, Jasper and 10 more | 54 min |
| Jun 13, 9:26 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Coke, Concho, Crockett, Irion, McCulloch, Menard and 3 more | 94 min |
| Jun 13, 11:15 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Brown, Burnet, Callahan, Coke and 31 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 13, 11:16 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hardin, Jasper, Newton, Orange, Sabine, Tyler | 119 min |
| Jun 13, 1:21 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Hardin, Harris and 14 more | 54 min |
| Jun 13, 1:56 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman and 20 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 13, 2:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Austin, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Brazos and 40 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 13, 3:54 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Bandera, Bastrop, Bexar, Blanco, Brazos and 42 more | 96 min |
| Jun 13, 5:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aransas, Atascosa, Bee, Calhoun, DeWitt, Duval and 15 more | 5 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.