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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Lubbock, TX

October 5, 2003Swisher County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 5, 2003, 6:04 PM CDT for Swisher County, Texas. It was in force for 41 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
Oct 5, 2003, 6:04 PM CDT (23:04 UTC)
Expired
Oct 5, 2003, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Lubbock, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Swisher County, TX

The radar

The Amarillo radar (KAMA), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 88 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2003-10-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 119 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 2003-10-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 128 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
119 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
745 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
128 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KLUB 052304
TORLBB
TXC437-052345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
604 PM CDT SUN OCT 5 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SWISHER COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 600 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF CLAYTONVILLE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF TULIA. THIS
  DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...
  CLAYTONVILLE...

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 3453 10169 3431 10170 3432 10148 3453 10147

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 5, 4:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBCochran42 min
Oct 5, 5:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBYoakum48 min
Oct 5, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBSwisher60 min
Oct 5, 5:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBTerry57 min
Oct 5, 6:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBLamb44 min
Oct 5, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUBTerry30 min
Oct 5, 6:36 PM CDTTornado WarningLUBFloyd54 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.