Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 400

June 5, 2004Curry County, Quay County, Roosevelt County, New Mexico; 23 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 5, 2004, 2:15 PM MDT for Curry County, Quay County, Roosevelt County, New Mexico; 23 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 2004, 2:15 PM MDT (20:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2004, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 26 counties

Curry County, NM, Quay County, NM, Roosevelt County, NM, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Briscoe County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Floyd County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lamb 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, Yoakum County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 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

4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 5:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAOldham44 min
Jun 5, 6:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAPotter, Randall22 min
Jun 5, 7:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMAPotter, Randall30 min
Jun 5, 7:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQCurry45 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 90 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2004-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2004-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 12 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2090 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 6:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAnderson, Bell, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Coleman and 22 more4 hr
Jun 4, 7:04 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCHansford, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts116 min
Jun 4, 8:35 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBell, Burnet, Coryell, Lampasas, Williamson115 min
Jun 4, 10:43 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBorden, Brown, Callahan, Coke, Coleman, Concho and 18 more2 hr
Jun 5, 10:45 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChambers, Hardin, Harris, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty and 3 more3 hr
Jun 5, 1:34 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArmstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Collingsworth, Dallam and 19 more116 min
Jun 5, 2:28 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBorden, Coke, Crosby, Dawson, Dickens, Fisher and 14 more2 hr
Jun 5, 3:14 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Brazoria, Caldwell, Calhoun and 17 more2 hr
Jun 5, 3:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCGray, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Wheeler6 hr
Jun 5, 4:00 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Delta and 27 more60 min
Jun 5, 4:48 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDallam, Hansford, Hartley, Lipscomb, Moore, Ochiltree and 1 more87 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.