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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 28, 2003Martin County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 2003, 6:42 PM CDT for Martin County, Texas. It was in force for 48 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: Apr 28, 2003, 6:42 PM CDT (23:42 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 2003, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 48 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), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 28, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 40 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: 313 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -307 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1644 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 41 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.

627 
WFUS54 KMAF 282342
TORMAF
TXC317-290030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
642 PM CDT MON APR 28 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MARTIN COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 642 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  THE INTERSECTION OF SH 349 AND SH 176...OR ABOUT 21 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 3242 10220 3232 10221 3210 10219 3211 10192
          3243 10204

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 27, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	45 min
Apr 28, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	54 min
Apr 28, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson	40 min
Apr 28, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Gaines	46 min
Apr 28, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson	61 min
Apr 28, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden	56 min
Apr 28, 6:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Borden, Dawson	116 min
Apr 28, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	32 min
Apr 28, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	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.