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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 2003, 8:54 PM CDT for Stonewall County, Texas. It was in force for 21 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, 8:54 PM CDT (01:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2003, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 21 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Stonewall 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 252 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
- 1093 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -179 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1733 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 96 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 486 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 650 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 7.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
324 WFUS54 KLUB 160154 TORLBB TXC433-160215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 853 PM CDT TUE APR 15 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEAST STONEWALL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 852 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER EXTREME NORTHEASTERN STONEWALL COUNTY...OR ABOUT 19 MILES NORTHWEST OF HASKELL. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... RURAL AREAS IN NORTHEAST STONEWALL COUNTY 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 3339 10012 3323 10010 3323 9999 3339 9999
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Motley | 30 min |
| Apr 15, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens, King | 43 min |
| Apr 15, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 40 min |
| Apr 15, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 39 min |
| Apr 15, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle | 45 min |
| Apr 15, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress | 29 min |
| Apr 15, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 38 min |
| Apr 15, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 45 min |
| Apr 15, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Stonewall | 47 min |
| Apr 15, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 44 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.