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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 13, 2003Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2003, 7:58 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 47 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, 7:58 PM CDT (00:58 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2003, 8:45 PM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pecos County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:58 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 nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 124 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 2003-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 972 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2003-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 145 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
972 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-210 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1532 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
145 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
285 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

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

589 
WFUS54 KMAF 140058
TORMAF
TXC371-140145-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT

* AT 757 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO ALONG INTERSTATE 10
  ABOUT 9 MILES WEST OF BAKERSFIELD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
  10 MPH.

* MOTORISTS ALONG INTERSTATE 10 ARE IN IMMEDIATE DANGER. 

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

LAT...LON 3096 10238 3089 10260 3068 10250 3078 10224

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 7:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos57 min
Jun 13, 7:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane, Upton33 min
Jun 13, 8:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines58 min
Jun 13, 8:45 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFPecos45 min
Jun 13, 8:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFTerrell54 min
Jun 13, 10:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews45 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.