Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 485
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 16, 2004, 7:55 PM CDT for Texas County, Oklahoma; 24 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 2004, 7:55 PM CDT (00:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2004, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 25 counties
Texas County, OK, Armstrong County, TX, Bailey County, TX, Carson County, TX, Castro County, TX, Cochran County, TX, Dallam County, TX, Deaf Smith County, TX, Hale County, TX, Hansford County, TX, Hartley County, TX, Hockley County, TX, Hutchinson County, TX, Lamb County, TX, Lubbock County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Moore County, TX, Oldham County, TX, Parmer County, TX, Potter County, TX, Randall County, TX, Sherman County, TX, Swisher County, TX, Terry County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
Warnings issued inside it
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hartley | 85 min |
| Jun 16, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Bailey | 44 min |
| Jun 16, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Dallam | 26 min |
| Jun 16, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Randall | 55 min |
| Jun 16, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lamb | 54 min |
| Jun 16, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Sherman | 58 min |
| Jun 16, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Moore | 96 min |
| Jun 16, 9:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hansford | 53 min |
| Jun 16, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AMA | Hutchinson | 60 min |
| Jun 16, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 57 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 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 1653 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -142 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2254 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 3:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cimarron | 89 min |
| Jun 17, 3:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Cimarron, Texas | 6 hr |
| Jun 16, 10:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray and 12 more | 59 min |
| Jun 17, 4:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brewster, Crane, Culberson, Ector, Hudspeth, Jeff Davis and 7 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.