Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 936
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Oct 6, 2003, 2:50 PM MDT for Chaves County, Eddy County, Lea County, New Mexico; 32 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 6, 2003, 2:50 PM MDT (20:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 6, 2003, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 35 counties
Chaves County, NM, Eddy County, NM, Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Crane County, TX, Crockett County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Edwards County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Howard County, TX, Irion County, TX, Loving County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reagan County, TX, Real County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Schleicher County, TX, Sterling County, TX, Sutton County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Terry County, TX, Upton County, TX, Val Verde County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:53 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
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 3:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 42 min |
| Oct 6, 3:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Edwards | 56 min |
| Oct 6, 4:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley | 65 min |
| Oct 6, 5:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Hockley | 45 min |
| Oct 6, 8:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | Chaves | 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 37 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
- 1090 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 813 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 2:22 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Eddy, Lea | 113 min |
| Oct 6, 5:45 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Eddy, Lea | 90 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Texas, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New Mexico, 2003Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2003
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.