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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 567
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 23, 2003, 2:20 PM MDT for 6 counties in New Mexico; 25 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 2003, 2:20 PM MDT (20:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2003, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties
Curry County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Harding County, NM, Lea County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Loving County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Moore County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
Warnings issued inside it
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 3:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry, Quay | 38 min |
| Jun 23, 3:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam, Hartley | 43 min |
| Jun 23, 3:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Roosevelt | 55 min |
| Jun 23, 4:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Curry | 46 min |
| Jun 23, 4:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Oldham | 64 min |
| Jun 23, 4:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey | 63 min |
| Jun 23, 4:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam, Sherman | 41 min |
| Jun 23, 4:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley | 45 min |
| Jun 23, 5:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Sherman | 65 min |
| Jun 23, 6:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore | 57 min |
| Jun 23, 6:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran | 50 min |
| Jun 23, 6:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley | 39 min |
| Jun 23, 6:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Ector | 44 min |
| Jun 23, 7:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lamb | 43 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 850 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -314 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1463 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 1:17 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Curry, Eddy, Lea, Quay, Roosevelt | 118 min |
| Jun 22, 6:16 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Crane, Crockett, Dawson, Ector and 12 more | 119 min |
| Jun 22, 7:16 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle and 14 more | 89 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.