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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 2003, 6:58 PM CDT for Childress County, Cottle County, Texas. It was in force for 32 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, 6:58 PM CDT (23:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2003, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Childress County, TX, Cottle County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
748 WFUS54 KLUB 152358 TORLBB TXC075-101-160030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 658 PM CDT TUE APR 15 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CHILDRESS COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF TEXAS COTTLE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 656 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 12 MILES WEST OF KIRKLAND...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH OF CHILDRESS...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH...THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. THIS TORNADO COULD BE LOCATED RIGHT ALONG THE CHILDRESS AND COTTLE COUNTY LINE. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... KIRKLAND... LAZARE... 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 3439 10038 3419 10033 3425 10001 3444 10002
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, 6:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Hall, Motley | 40 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 |
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.