Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 29, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 5, 2003, 6:36 PM CDT for Floyd County, Texas. It was in force for 54 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, 6:36 PM CDT (23:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 5, 2003, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Floyd County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KLUB 052336 TORLBB TXC153-060030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 635 PM CDT SUN OCT 5 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... FLOYD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 635 PM CDT...STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 16 MILES NORTH OF AIKEN...OR ABOUT 28 MILES NORTHWEST OF FLOYDADA. RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADIC STORM MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. BASEBALL SIZE HAIL HAS ALSO BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM IN SWISHER COUNTY * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... AIKEN... LOCKNEY... 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 3430 10107 3430 10156 3408 10155 3407 10106 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cochran | 42 min |
| Oct 5, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Yoakum | 48 min |
| Oct 5, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Swisher | 60 min |
| Oct 5, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 57 min |
| Oct 5, 6:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Swisher | 41 min |
| Oct 5, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lamb | 44 min |
| Oct 5, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 30 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.