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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 398
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 4, 2004, 6:40 PM CDT for Beaver County, Texas County, Oklahoma; 17 counties in Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 2004, 6:40 PM CDT (23:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2004, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Beaver County, OK, Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Donley County, TX, Gray County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hemphill County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lipscomb County, TX, Moore County, TX, Ochiltree County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Roberts County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Swisher County, TX
The radar
The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 50 min |
| Jun 4, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson | 47 min |
| Jun 4, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Potter, Randall | 65 min |
| Jun 4, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 61 min |
| Jun 4, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Beaver, Texas | 54 min |
| Jun 4, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Carson, Gray | 58 min |
| Jun 4, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 67 min |
| Jun 4, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Armstrong | 45 min |
| Jun 4, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Briscoe | 53 min |
| Jun 4, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Castro | 52 min |
| Jun 4, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 59 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 25 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
- 618 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -328 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1154 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 4:15 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alfalfa, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Cleveland, Custer and 12 more | 90 min |
| Jun 4, 2:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beckham, Ellis, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Roger Mills | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 2:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cimarron | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cimarron, Texas | 6 hr |
| Jun 4, 6:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Texas | 116 min |
| Jun 4, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Bosque, Callahan, Clay, Collin and 37 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 4, 3:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Culberson, El Paso, Hudspeth, Loving, Reeves | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 5:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Chambers, Hardin, Houston, Jasper, Jefferson and 9 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 5:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Archer, Baylor, Bell, Borden, Bosque, Brazos and 62 more | 85 min |
| Jun 4, 6:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Collingsworth, Deaf Smith and 10 more | 83 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.