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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

March 15, 2003Glasscock County, Howard County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 15, 2003, 8:16 PM CST for Glasscock County, Howard County, Texas. It was in force for 44 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
Mar 15, 2003, 8:16 PM CST (02:16 UTC)
Expired
Mar 15, 2003, 9:00 PM CST
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:16 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 nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 62 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2003-03-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 639 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2003-03-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
639 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2135 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
49 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.

000 
WUUS54 KMAF 160216
SVRMAF
TXC173-227-160300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
814 PM CST SAT MAR 15 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN HOWARD COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS
  NORTHERN GLASSCOCK COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 900 PM CST

* AT 811 PM CST...QUARTER SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED 7 MILES
  WEST OF BIG SPRING ON INTERSTATE 20. RADAR SHOWED THE 
  THUNDERSTORM MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
  BIG SPRING...LEES...FORSAN...LOMAX...LEES AND ELBOW

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. 
TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

LAT...LON 3200 10172 3198 10141 3212 10131 3228 10164

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 15, 6:04 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFUpton41 min
Mar 15, 6:38 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReagan37 min
Mar 15, 7:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGlasscock31 min
Mar 15, 7:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMartin, Midland33 min
Mar 15, 9:00 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningMAFHoward3 hr
Mar 15, 9:32 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGlasscock43 min
Mar 15, 10:17 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGlasscock, Reagan43 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.