Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 2003, 8:00 PM CDT for Kent County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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
- Apr 15, 2003, 8:00 PM CDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2003, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kent County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:01 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 1093 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -179 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1733 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 96 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 486 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 650 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 7.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
320 WUUS54 KLUB 160100 SVRLBB TXC263-160145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 800 PM CDT TUE APR 15 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KENT COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 800 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 75 MPH 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GIRARD...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF JAYTON...MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH. NICKEL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT 755 PM IN GIRARD. HAIL THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... JAYTON AND GIRARD... IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 8 0 6 7 4 5 1 2 9 0. LAT...LON 3338 10080 3313 10088 3316 10052 3339 10053
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Motley | 30 min |
| Apr 15, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, King | 43 min |
| Apr 15, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 40 min |
| Apr 15, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 39 min |
| Apr 15, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle | 45 min |
| Apr 15, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress | 29 min |
| Apr 15, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 38 min |
| Apr 15, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 47 min |
| Apr 15, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 44 min |
| Apr 15, 8:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 21 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.