Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 18
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 4, 2004, 1:00 AM MST for Lea County, Roosevelt County, New Mexico; 29 counties in Oklahoma; 45 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 4, 2004, 1:00 AM MST (08:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 4, 2004, 6:00 AM MST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 76 counties
Lea County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Beckham County, OK, Blaine County, OK, Caddo County, OK, Canadian County, OK, Carter County, OK, Cleveland County, OK, Comanche County, OK, Cotton County, OK, Custer County, OK, Dewey County, OK, Garfield County, OK, Garvin County, OK, Grady County, OK, Greer County, OK, Harmon County, OK, Jackson County, OK, Jefferson County, OK, Kay County, OK, Kingfisher County, OK, Kiowa County, OK, Logan County, OK, McClain County, OK, Murray County, OK, Noble County, OK, Oklahoma County, OK, Roger Mills County, OK, Stephens County, OK, Tillman County, OK, Washita County, OK, Andrews County, TX, Archer County, TX, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Baylor County, TX, Borden County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Castro County, TX, Childress County, TX, Clay County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Collingsworth County, TX, Cottle County, TX, Crosby County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Dickens County, TX, Donley County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Foard County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hall County, TX, Hardeman County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Knox County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Loving County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Motley County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Wheeler County, TX, Wichita County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:01 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
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 1:18 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 27 min |
| Mar 4, 1:57 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Garza | 48 min |
| Mar 4, 2:17 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SJT | Haskell | 58 min |
| Mar 4, 3:15 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby, Dickens, Garza | 30 min |
| Mar 4, 3:44 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 46 min |
| Mar 4, 3:50 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 40 min |
| Mar 4, 3:52 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, Motley | 23 min |
| Mar 4, 5:09 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OUN | Beckham | 36 min |
| Mar 4, 5:31 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 44 min |
| Mar 4, 5:53 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 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 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 718 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 83 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 12:56 AM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lea, Roosevelt | 94 min |
| Mar 4, 4:01 AM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lea, Roosevelt | 119 min |
| Mar 4, 1:44 AM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter and 36 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 4, 5:55 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beckham, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Greer, Harmon and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 4, 6:20 AM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche and 23 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 4, 6:55 AM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Beckham, Blaine, Canadian, Custer, Dewey and 17 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 4, 8:28 AM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw and 33 more | 62 min |
| Mar 4, 8:45 AM MST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin and 8 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 4, 10:52 AM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Grady and 7 more | 53 min |
| Mar 4, 12:02 PM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin and 6 more | 88 min |
| Mar 4, 12:25 PM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coal and 29 more | 65 min |
| Mar 4, 1:02 PM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Canadian, Carter, Cleveland, Comanche, Creek, Garvin and 12 more | 88 min |
| Mar 4, 1:05 PM MST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Coal and 33 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 4, 1:18 PM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Choctaw, McCurtain | 57 min |
| Mar 4, 2:00 PM MST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Choctaw, McCurtain | 6 hr |
| Mar 4, 3:41 PM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | McCurtain | 2 hr |
| Mar 3, 6:03 PM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Coke, Crane, Crockett, Dawson and 25 more | 117 min |
| Mar 3, 7:40 PM MST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Cottle, Crane, Crosby, Dawson and 20 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 3, 10:44 PM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrews, Borden, Crane, Crosby, Dawson, Dickens and 16 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 4, 3:25 AM MST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett, Fisher and 23 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 4, 4:32 AM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho, Crockett, Fisher and 23 more | 118 min |
| Mar 4, 7:43 AM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho and 26 more | 62 min |
| Mar 4, 9:46 AM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atascosa, Bandera, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Bosque and 27 more | 89 min |
| Mar 4, 10:50 AM MST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bandera, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet and 42 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 4, 10:52 AM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson, Chambers, Colorado and 15 more | 113 min |
| Mar 4, 12:42 PM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Burnet, Collin, Coryell and 17 more | 63 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.