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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 403

June 5, 200416 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 5, 2004, 11:45 PM CDT for 16 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 2004, 11:45 PM CDT (04:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 2004, 5:00 AM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Callahan County, TX, Coke County, TX, Coleman County, TX, Eastland County, TX, Fisher County, TX, Haskell County, TX, Jones County, TX, Kent County, TX, King County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Nolan County, TX, Runnels County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Shackelford County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Taylor County, TX

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 12:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBorden, Scurry48 min
Jun 6, 12:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTFisher, Jones62 min
Jun 6, 12:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTNolan56 min
Jun 6, 12:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTTaylor63 min
Jun 6, 1:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTHaskell, Throckmorton72 min
Jun 6, 1:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTJones46 min
Jun 6, 2:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSJTShackelford, Throckmorton29 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 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 223 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2004-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 485 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2004-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 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
485 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3647 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 7:48 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDallam, Hansford, Hartley, Lipscomb, Moore, Ochiltree and 1 more57 min
Jun 5, 9:51 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCHemphill, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts, Wheeler54 min
Jun 6, 1:40 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBell, Blanco, Bosque, Brown, Burnet, Callahan and 34 more95 min
Jun 6, 2:07 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBell, Bosque, Burnet, Collin, Cooke, Coryell and 20 more113 min
Jun 6, 5:39 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArcher, Bosque, Brown, Callahan, Clay, Coke and 40 more3 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.