Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 44
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 5, 2004, 2:00 PM CDT for 13 counties in Texas. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 5, 2004, 2:00 PM CDT (19:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 5, 2004, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Brewster County, TX, Crane County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Hudspeth County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Loving County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Presidio County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Terrell County, TX, Val Verde County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:00 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
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 2:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis | 57 min |
| Apr 5, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Presidio | 64 min |
| Apr 5, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis | 59 min |
| Apr 5, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 62 min |
| Apr 5, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 59 min |
| Apr 5, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 32 min |
| Apr 5, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 51 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 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 714 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 8:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brooks, Jim Hogg, Kleberg, Nueces, Starr, Zapata | 2 hr |
| Apr 4, 10:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aransas, Brooks, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Kleberg and 3 more | 114 min |
| Apr 5, 1:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brewster, Culberson, Hudspeth, Jeff Davis, Pecos, Presidio and 2 more | 96 min |
| Apr 5, 3:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brewster, Crane, Culberson, Hudspeth, Jeff Davis, Loving and 7 more | 114 min |
| Apr 5, 6:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brewster, Crockett, Edwards, Kinney, Maverick, Real and 3 more | 2 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.