Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 8, 2003, 2:00 AM CDT for Martin County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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, 2:00 AM CDT (07:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 2003, 2:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Martin County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 34 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMAF 080700 TORMAF TXC317-080745- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 159 AM CDT MON SEP 8 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN MARTIN COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS * UNTIL 245 AM CDT * AT 158 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTH OF THE INTERSECTION OF HWY 349 AND 176...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTH OF MIDLAND... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. SEVERAL FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... STANTON...THE INTERSECTION OF HWY 3...THE INTERSECTION OF SH 349 AND SH 176...TARZAN...GRADY AND COURTNEY A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME-TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3232 10221 3210 10220 3209 10179 3232 10190 $$
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, 1:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Andrews, Martin | 29 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Texas, 2003Every tornado warning in 2003Tornadoes in 2003
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.