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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 12, 2003Brewster County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 12, 2003, 6:28 PM CDT for Brewster 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
May 12, 2003, 6:28 PM CDT (23:28 UTC)
Expired
May 12, 2003, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Brewster County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 210 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:32 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 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 211 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 12:00Z on 2003-05-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2003-05-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 172 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1383 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
172 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
200 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.9

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The text

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

760 
WFUS54 KMAF 122328
TORMAF
TXC043-130015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
626 PM CDT MON MAY 12 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL BREWSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 626 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  ALTUDA...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF MARATHON...MOVING SOUTHEAST
  AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
  MARATHON...HIGHWAY 385 NORTH OF MARATHON TO BREWSTER PECOS COUNTY  
  LINE

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

LAT...LON 3056 10340 3025 10368 2992 10306 3022 10291

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 12, 3:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFJeff Davis63 min
May 12, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFJeff Davis45 min
May 12, 5:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReeves40 min
May 12, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster50 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.