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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 384

June 3, 200558 counties in Texas

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 3, 2005, 11:15 AM CDT for 58 counties in Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 3, 2005, 11:15 AM CDT (16:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 2005, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 58 counties

Anderson County, TX, Angelina County, TX, Bell County, TX, Bosque County, TX, Brazos County, TX, Burnet County, TX, Camp County, TX, Cass County, TX, Cherokee County, TX, Coryell County, TX, Dallas County, TX, Ellis County, TX, Erath County, TX, Falls County, TX, Franklin County, TX, Freestone County, TX, Gregg County, TX, Hamilton County, TX, Harrison County, TX, Henderson County, TX, Hill County, TX, Hood County, TX, Hopkins County, TX, Houston County, TX, Hunt County, TX, Johnson County, TX, Kaufman County, TX, Lampasas County, TX, Leon County, TX, Limestone County, TX, Madison County, TX, Marion County, TX, McLennan County, TX, Milam County, TX, Morris County, TX, Nacogdoches County, TX, Navarro County, TX, Palo Pinto County, TX, Panola County, TX, Parker County, TX, Polk County, TX, Rains County, TX, Robertson County, TX, Rockwall County, TX, Rusk County, TX, San Augustine County, TX, Shelby County, TX, Smith County, TX, Somervell County, TX, Tarrant County, TX, Titus County, TX, Trinity County, TX, Tyler County, TX, Upshur County, TX, Van Zandt County, TX, Walker County, TX, Williamson County, TX, Wood County, TX

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 12:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLampasas60 min
Jun 3, 12:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCoryell65 min
Jun 3, 12:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEWXBurnet, Llano40 min
Jun 3, 1:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLampasas52 min
Jun 3, 1:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas, Ellis67 min
Jun 3, 2:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLampasas62 min
Jun 3, 2:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCoryell58 min
Jun 3, 3:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell70 min
Jun 3, 3:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCoryell, McLennan80 min
Jun 3, 4:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCoryell32 min
Jun 3, 5:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDMcLennan70 min
Jun 3, 5:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell63 min
Jun 3, 6:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell41 min
Jun 3, 6:54 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDBell33 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 Sill, OK (KFSI), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 325 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, Fort Sill, OK at 12:00Z on 2005-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 936 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Sill, OK at 12:00Z on 2005-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 2 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
936 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-275 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1423 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 7:26 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCrane, Crockett, Ector, Glasscock, Martin, Midland and 6 more94 min
Jun 2, 9:05 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAndrews, Borden, Brewster, Coke, Crane, Crockett and 27 more7 hr
Jun 2, 11:14 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAndrews, Borden, Brewster, Coke, Crane, Crockett and 26 more91 min
Jun 2, 11:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBailey, Briscoe, Castro, Childress, Cochran, Cottle and 18 more7 hr
Jun 3, 3:16 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAndrews, Bailey, Borden, Brewster, Cochran, Coke and 36 more89 min
Jun 3, 3:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBaylor, Borden, Coke, Cottle, Crockett, Dickens and 24 more6 hr
Jun 3, 6:45 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFoard, Hardeman, Wichita, Wilbarger90 min
Jun 3, 7:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCClay, Foard, Hardeman, Wichita, Wilbarger7 hr
Jun 3, 8:57 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBandera, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Burleson and 20 more63 min
Jun 3, 11:58 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArcher, Baylor, Childress, Clay, Cottle, Dickens and 13 more2 hr
Jun 3, 1:34 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Bell, Blanco, Bosque, Brazos, Burleson and 22 more116 min
Jun 3, 1:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArcher, Baylor, Clay, Knox, Montague, Wichita and 1 more5 hr
Jun 3, 3:23 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArcher, Baylor, Clay, Foard, Haskell, Jack and 6 more2 hr
Jun 3, 5:13 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Brazos and 23 more92 min
Jun 3, 5:47 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArcher, Baylor, Clay, Montague, Wichita, Wilbarger58 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.