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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

September 8, 2003Andrews County, Martin County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 8, 2003, 1:31 AM CDT for Andrews County, Martin County, Texas. It was in force for 29 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: Sep 8, 2003, 1:31 AM CDT (06:31 UTC)
Expired: Sep 8, 2003, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Andrews County, TX, Martin County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:33 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 44 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: 26 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -247 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1701 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 296 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMAF 080631
TORMAF
TXC003-317-080700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
131 AM CDT MON SEP 8 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN ANDREWS COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS
  WESTERN MARTIN COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 200 AM CDT

* AT 131 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  THE INTERSECTION OF HWY 3...OR ABOUT 20 MILES EAST OF ANDREWS...
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
  THE INTERSECTION OF HWY 3 AND THE INTERSECTION OF SH 349 AND SH 176

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

LAT...LON 3251 10241 3210 10229 3209 10197 3252 10203

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 7, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	46 min
Sep 7, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson	62 min
Sep 7, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson	30 min
Sep 7, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden	60 min
Sep 7, 10:08 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Dawson	3 hr
Sep 7, 10:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson	55 min
Sep 7, 11:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	58 min
Sep 8, 12:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Gaines	55 min
Sep 8, 2:00 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Martin	45 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.