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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 13, 2003Gaines County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2003, 5:23 PM CDT for Gaines County, Texas. It was in force for 52 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 13, 2003, 5:23 PM CDT (22:23 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2003, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Gaines County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:24 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 13, 12:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 88 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: 1071 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -199 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2165 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

541 
WFUS54 KMAF 132223
TORMAF
TXC165-132315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
523 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN GAINES COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 523 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 24 MILES SOUTH OF CEDAR
  LAKE...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF ANDREWS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
  CEDAR LAKE

A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME. TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES
AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3295 10221 3253 10221 3253 10253

$$

05

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 9:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Terrell	42 min
Jun 13, 1:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell	48 min
Jun 13, 2:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Mitchell	3 hr
Jun 13, 2:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Glasscock	3 hr
Jun 13, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	53 min
Jun 13, 2:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Midland	3 hr
Jun 13, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	61 min
Jun 13, 3:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	59 min
Jun 13, 3:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	37 min
Jun 13, 3:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	64 min
Jun 13, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	63 min
Jun 13, 3:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Howard	4 hr
Jun 13, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	60 min
Jun 13, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	33 min
Jun 13, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson	56 min
Jun 13, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	31 min
Jun 13, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	57 min
Jun 13, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	80 min
Jun 13, 4:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Martin	2 hr
Jun 13, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	52 min
Jun 13, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	42 min
Jun 13, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson	58 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.