Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 4
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Feb 4, 2004, 9:20 PM CST for Little River County, Arkansas; 58 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 4, 2004, 9:20 PM CST (03:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 5, 2004, 3:00 AM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 59 counties
Little River County, AR, Anderson County, TX, Atascosa County, TX, Bandera County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Bell County, TX, Bexar County, TX, Blanco County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Bowie County, TX, Burleson County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Caldwell County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Collin County, TX, Comal County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Falls County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Gillespie County, TX, Gonzales County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Guadalupe County, TX, Hays County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Karnes County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Kendall County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Lee County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Medina County, TX, Milam County, TX, Morris County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Rains County, TX, Red River County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Smith County, TX, Titus County, TX, Travis County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wilson County, TX, Wood County, TX
Warnings issued inside it
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 4, 9:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 28 min |
| Feb 5, 12:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls | 44 min |
| Feb 5, 12:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Gillespie | 31 min |
| Feb 5, 2:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EWX | Comal | 33 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
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 465 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 262 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 313 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 4, 8:09 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson and 29 more | 96 min |
| Feb 4, 11:37 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hardin, Jasper, Liberty, Newton, Orange, Polk and 3 more | 83 min |
| Feb 4, 11:49 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar and 53 more | 86 min |
| Feb 5, 1:16 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Austin, Brazos, Cherokee, Colorado, Grimes and 20 more | 119 min |
| Feb 5, 5:40 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jefferson, Orange | 6 hr |
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.