Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 853
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Oct 5, 2004, 9:50 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico; 26 counties in Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 5, 2004, 9:50 PM MDT (03:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 6, 2004, 2:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 27 counties
Lea County, NM, Andrews County, TX, Borden County, TX, Crane County, TX, Culberson County, TX, Dawson County, TX, Ector County, TX, Gaines County, TX, Garza County, TX, Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX, Jeff Davis County, TX, Kent County, TX, Loving County, TX, Lynn County, TX, Martin County, TX, Midland County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Pecos County, TX, Reeves County, TX, Scurry County, TX, Stonewall County, TX, Terry County, TX, Upton County, TX, Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX, Yoakum County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:50 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
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 10:11 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Reeves | 64 min |
| Oct 5, 10:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Winkler | 39 min |
| Oct 5, 10:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ward | 55 min |
| Oct 5, 10:42 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Winkler | 3 hr |
| Oct 5, 10:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 49 min |
| Oct 5, 11:05 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector | 6 hr |
| Oct 5, 11:10 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Dawson | 4 hr |
| Oct 5, 11:13 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews | 4 hr |
| Oct 5, 11:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ward | 59 min |
| Oct 5, 11:49 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Midland | 4 hr |
| Oct 6, 12:08 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Crane, Ward | 5 hr |
| Oct 6, 12:33 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Howard, Martin | 4 hr |
| Oct 6, 12:45 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis | 45 min |
| Oct 6, 12:52 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 4 hr |
| Oct 6, 1:03 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Mitchell, Scurry | 5 hr |
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, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 1149 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 922 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 5.9
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 7:45 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chaves, Eddy, Lea, Otero | 2 hr |
| Oct 5, 9:32 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Eddy, Lea | 118 min |
| Oct 6, 12:23 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Borden, Crane, Culberson, Ector, Garza, Glasscock and 12 more | 97 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.