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Tornado Watch 373
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 1, 2004, 5:20 PM CDT for Bryan County, Choctaw County, Marshall County, Oklahoma; 28 counties in Texas. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 2004, 5:20 PM CDT (22:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2004, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties
Bryan County, OK, Choctaw County, OK, Marshall County, OK, Bell County, TX, Collin County, TX, Cooke County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Delta County, TX, Denton County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Falls County, TX, Fannin County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Grayson County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lamar County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Rains County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX
The radar
The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton, Tarrant | 53 min |
| Jun 1, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 37 min |
| Jun 1, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Cooke | 55 min |
| Jun 1, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant, Wise | 67 min |
| Jun 1, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Denton | 46 min |
| Jun 1, 8:39 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Parker, Tarrant | 2 hr |
| Jun 1, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis, Johnson | 80 min |
| Jun 1, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 42 min |
| Jun 1, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 60 min |
| Jun 1, 9:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Dallas | 117 min |
| Jun 1, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hunt | 58 min |
| Jun 1, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 31 min |
| Jun 1, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Kaufman, Rockwall | 62 min |
| Jun 1, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Hill | 59 min |
| Jun 1, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Ellis, Johnson | 61 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
Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -449 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1825 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WWUS20 KWNS 012220
SEL3
SPC WW 012220
OKZ000-TXZ000-020300-
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 373
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
520 PM CDT TUE JUN 1 2004
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
FAR SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA
CENTRAL TEXAS
EFFECTIVE THIS TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 520 PM UNTIL
1000 PM CDT.
TORNADOES...HAIL TO 4 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS
TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.
THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 55 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST
OF A LINE FROM 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF DURANT OKLAHOMA TO 40 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF TEMPLE TEXAS.
REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.
OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 368...WW 369...WW 370...WW
371...WW 372...
DISCUSSION...SUPERCELLS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE DEVELOPING EWD ACROSS
WW THIS EVENING. AIR MASS IS EXTREMELY MOIST AND UNSTABLE WITH
SUFFICIENT SHEAR FOR SUPERCELLS WITH VERY LARGE HAIL AND POSSIBLE
TORNADOES. ACTIVITY MAY CONGEAL LATER THIS EVENING INTO ONE OR MORE
SEVERE CLUSTERS/LINES AND SHIFT ESEWD INTO NERN TX/FAR SERN OK ALONG
RESIDUAL OUTFLOW BOUNDARY AND SURFACE WARM FRONT.
AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 4 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND
GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 500.
MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 28020.
...EVANS
340,0951 304,0960 304,0975 340,0970SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 3:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jefferson, Love | 6 hr |
| Jun 1, 5:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Choctaw | 86 min |
| May 31, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bell, Brazos, Cherokee, Ellis, Falls and 19 more | 4 hr |
| May 31, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Austin, Brazoria, Brazos, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend and 6 more | 3 hr |
| May 31, 11:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Austin, Bell, Brazoria, Brazos, Burleson and 33 more | 59 min |
| Jun 1, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Brazos and 49 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 1, 3:41 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Angelina, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Brazos and 50 more | 94 min |
| Jun 1, 6:42 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Houston, Jasper, Nacogdoches, Newton, Panola and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 1, 2:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bastrop, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brazos and 55 more | 2 hr |
| Jun 1, 6:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Angelina, Austin, Bastrop, Brazos, Burleson, Caldwell and 25 more | 91 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.