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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2003, 6:58 PM CDT for Crane County, Texas. It was in force for 62 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
- Jun 3, 2003, 6:58 PM CDT (23:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2003, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Crane County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 1343 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -333 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1779 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 288 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
929
WUUS54 KMAF 032358
SVRMAF
TXC103-040100-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
700 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN CRANE COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS
* UNTIL 800 PM CDT
* AT 656 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES EAST OF CORDONA LAKE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF CRANE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
CORDONA LAKE
LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAINS ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.
INTENSE LIGHTNING IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS.
LAT...LON 3110 10234 3114 10242 3121 10243 3129 10257
3130 10277 3135 10276 3135 10232 3110 10231
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 45 min |
| Jun 3, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 45 min |
| Jun 3, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector, Winkler | 44 min |
| Jun 3, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane | 42 min |
| Jun 3, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 62 min |
| Jun 3, 5:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 60 min |
| Jun 3, 6:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Midland | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Scurry | 55 min |
| Jun 3, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane | 25 min |
| Jun 3, 6:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Borden | 50 min |
| Jun 3, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 31 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.