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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 28, 2003Dawson County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 2003, 5:05 PM CDT for Dawson 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 28, 2003, 5:05 PM CDT (22:05 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 2003, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Dawson County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:05 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 28, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 93 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: 313 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -307 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1644 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 41 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.

114 
WUUS54 KMAF 282205
SVRMAF
TXC115-282245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
503 PM CDT MON APR 28 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DAWSON COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 503 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER THE UNION COMMUNITY...OR ABOUT 9 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF LAMESA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
  U.S. 180 AND FM 829 ABOUT 11 MILES WEST OF LAMESA

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED 
WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

LAT...LON 3291 10219 3255 10217 3258 10174 3292 10180

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 27, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	45 min
Apr 28, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	54 min
Apr 28, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Gaines	46 min
Apr 28, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson	61 min
Apr 28, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden	56 min
Apr 28, 6:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Borden, Dawson	116 min
Apr 28, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	32 min
Apr 28, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	58 min
Apr 28, 6:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Martin	48 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.