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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 23, 2003, 1:11 PM CDT for Cottle County, King County, Texas. It was in force for 49 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 23, 2003, 1:11 PM CDT (18:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2003, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Cottle County, TX, King County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:13 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 23, 11:50 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 131 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -181 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 498 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KLUB 231811 TORLBB TXC101-269-231900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 111 PM CDT WED APR 23 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... COTTLE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS KING COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 200 PM CDT * AT 105 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF GROW...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTH OF PADUCAH. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER GUTHRIE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... GROW... CHALK... HACKBERRY... AT 1245 PM...THE KING COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED A TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF FINNEY. THAT TORNADO HAD SINCE DISSIPATED. IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 8 0 6 7 4 5 1 2 9 0. LAT...LON 3394 10032 3379 10040 3380 10006 3394 10007
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 12:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Briscoe, Hall | 42 min |
| Apr 23, 12:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Motley | 41 min |
| Apr 23, 12:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 48 min |
| Apr 23, 12:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle | 62 min |
| Apr 23, 1:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 44 min |
| Apr 23, 1:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 41 min |
| Apr 23, 2:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 13 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.