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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Lubbock, TX
NWS Lubbock, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 2003, 12:53 AM CDT for Cottle County, Texas. It was in force for 37 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 19, 2003, 12:53 AM CDT (05:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2003, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Lubbock, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cottle County, TX
The radar
The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 18, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 3956 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
015 WFUS54 KLUB 190553 TORLBB TXC101-190630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LUBBOCK TX 1252 AM CDT SAT APR 19 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LUBBOCK HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... COTTLE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 130 AM CDT * AT 1250 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES WEST OF DELWIN...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PADUCAH. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF BASEBALLS IS ALSO POSSIBLE. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE... DELWIN... CHALK... PADUCAH... HACKBERRY... SWEARINGEN... 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 3413 10051 3385 10052 3385 10006 3417 10006
The office that day
Everything else NWS Lubbock, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 66 min |
| Apr 18, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 44 min |
| Apr 18, 11:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 38 min |
| Apr 18, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Motley | 51 min |
| Apr 18, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress | 61 min |
| Apr 18, 11:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle | 25 min |
| Apr 18, 11:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lubbock | 67 min |
| Apr 19, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 45 min |
| Apr 19, 12:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Terry | 59 min |
| Apr 19, 12:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Lynn | 57 min |
| Apr 19, 12:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 64 min |
| Apr 19, 12:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Motley | 36 min |
| Apr 19, 12:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | King | 31 min |
| Apr 19, 12:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 44 min |
| Apr 19, 12:50 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | King | 25 min |
| Apr 19, 1:17 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Crosby | 28 min |
| Apr 19, 1:19 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Dickens | 41 min |
| Apr 19, 1:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Motley | 50 min |
| Apr 19, 1:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle | 14 min |
| Apr 19, 1:55 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LUB | Cottle | 65 min |
| Apr 19, 2:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 38 min |
| Apr 19, 2:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Childress | 32 min |
| Apr 19, 2:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Crosby | 29 min |
| Apr 19, 2:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Dickens | 53 min |
| Apr 19, 2:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Garza | 60 min |
| Apr 19, 3:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Motley | 22 min |
| Apr 19, 3:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Cottle, King | 46 min |
| Apr 19, 3:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LUB | Kent | 45 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.