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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Lubbock, TX

April 15, 2003Hall County, Motley County, Texas

NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 2003, 6:20 PM CDT for Hall County, Motley County, Texas. It was in force for 40 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 15, 2003, 6:20 PM CDT (23:20 UTC)
Expired: Apr 15, 2003, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Lubbock, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Hall County, TX, Motley County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 15, 5:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 135 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2381 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 71 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.

621 
WFUS54 KLUB 152320
TORLBB
TXC191-345-160000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX
620 PM CDT TUE APR 15 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HALL COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS
  MOTLEY COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 616 PM CDT...STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 7 MILES EAST OF
  FLOMOT...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF QUITAQUE. RADAR SHOWED THIS
  TORNADIC STORM MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

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

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 3423 10104 3403 10059 3435 10052 3444 10049
          3453 10076

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 15, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Motley	23 min
Apr 15, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Floyd	46 min
Apr 15, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Childress, Cottle	34 min
Apr 15, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LUB	Crosby	30 min
Apr 15, 6:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LUB	Childress, Cottle	32 min

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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.