Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2003

Tornado Warning 3, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 9, 2003Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 9, 2003, 4:41 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 64 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: May 9, 2003, 4:41 PM CDT (21:41 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 2003, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 64 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), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:41 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 nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 133 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 4389 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 193 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMAF 092141
TORMAF
TXC371-092245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
439 PM CDT FRI MAY 9 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 439 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 21 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  IRAAN...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BAKERSFIELD...MOVING EAST AT
  20 MPH. IN ADDITION...VERY LARGE AND DESTRUCTIVE HAIL LARGER THAN   
  BASEBALLS WILL BE POSSIBLE.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
  INTERSTATE 10 BETWEEN BAKERSFIELD AND SHEFFIELD...AND THE CITY OF 
  SHEFFIELD.

MOTORISTS ALONG INTERSTATE 10 NEAR SHEFFIELD SHOULD LOOK FOR SHELTER 
IN A SUBSTANTIAL BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...TAKE COVER IN A DITCH 
OR LOW SPOT PROVIDED THAT LOCATION IS NOT FLOODED.

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

LAT...LON 3074 10232 3061 10219 3067 10214 3067 10178
          3077 10184 3085 10185 3101 10203

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 8:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	50 min
May 9, 10:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell	29 min
May 9, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	57 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Texas, 2003 Every tornado warning in 2003 Tornadoes 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.