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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 2003, 8:29 PM CDT for Parmer County, Texas. It was in force for 46 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, 8:29 PM CDT (01:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2003, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 115 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.
000 WFUS54 KLUB 040129 TORLBB TXC369-040215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 830 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 915 PM CDT * AT 830 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 5 MILES NORTH OF FRIONA... MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH...THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... BLACK... FRIONA... 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 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...PLEASE CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT 8 0 6 7 4 5 1 2 9 0. LAT...LON 3474 10287 3447 10277 3443 10254 3475 10254 $$
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, 7:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Parmer | 44 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, 8:33 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.