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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Amarillo, TX

May 15, 2003Beaver County, Oklahoma

NWS Amarillo, TX issued this tornado warning at May 15, 2003, 9:04 PM CDT for Beaver County, Oklahoma. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 15, 2003, 9:04 PM CDT (02:04 UTC)
Expired
May 15, 2003, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Amarillo, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Beaver County, OK

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 15, 6:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 128 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, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2003-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 351 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 00:00Z on 2003-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 417 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
351 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-254 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
723 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
417 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
695 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

963 
WFUS54 KAMA 160204
TORAMA
OKC007-160300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AMARILLO TX
903 PM CDT THU MAY 15 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN AMARILLO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BEAVER COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF OKLAHOMA

* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT

* AT 903 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS
  PORTION OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES EAST OF BOYD...OR ABOUT 16
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF BEAVER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
  BEAVER...MOCANE AND KNOWLES.

A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME-TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES
AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3671 10090 3659 10075 3666 10000 3714 10045

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Amarillo, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 15, 7:14 PM CDTTornado WarningAMATexas61 min
May 15, 8:00 PM CDTTornado WarningAMACimarron60 min
May 15, 8:14 PM CDTTornado WarningAMATexas61 min
May 15, 9:57 PM CDTTornado WarningAMABeaver63 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.