Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 563
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 22, 2003, 5:50 PM CDT for 18 counties in Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 2003, 5:50 PM CDT (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2003, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Armstrong County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Childress County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Kent County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Motley County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Wheeler County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:51 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
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 24 min |
| Jun 22, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 45 min |
| Jun 22, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 59 min |
| Jun 22, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 60 min |
| Jun 22, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Motley | 58 min |
| Jun 22, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Motley | 60 min |
| Jun 22, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Floyd | 37 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 1126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -248 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1656 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 4:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Briscoe, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Crosby, Dickens and 12 more | 85 min |
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.