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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 2003, 7:46 PM CDT for Parmer County, Texas. It was in force for 44 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
- Jun 3, 2003, 7:46 PM CDT (00:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2003, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Parmer County, TX
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 3:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 919 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1137 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 433 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 6.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
801 WFUS54 KLUB 040046 TORLBB TXC369-040130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 745 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PARMER COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 745 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF OKLAHOMA LANE...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTH OF FRIONA. ANOTHER STORM WITH STRONG ROTATION WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OKLAHOMA LANE...OR ABOUT 7 MILES EAST OF LARIAT AND A THIRD STORM WITH STRONG ROTATION WAS LOCATED ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH OF RHEA. STORMS ARE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANYTIME. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... OKLAHOMA LANE AND BOVINA... LAZBUDDIE... THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. PERSONS IN BOVINA SHOULD TAKE COVER NOW 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 TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 8 0 6 7 4 5 1 2 9 0. LAT...LON 3465 10301 3433 10295 3433 10254 3460 10255 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 7:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Parmer | 24 min |
| Jun 3, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 51 min |
| Jun 3, 7:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Bailey | 41 min |
| Jun 3, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 47 min |
| Jun 3, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Bailey | 44 min |
| Jun 3, 8:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Parmer | 46 min |
| Jun 3, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lamb | 42 min |
| Jun 3, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran, Hockley | 59 min |
| Jun 3, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 52 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.