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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 1, 2003Martin County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 2003, 8:36 PM CDT for Martin County, Texas. It was in force for 24 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: Jun 1, 2003, 8:36 PM CDT (01:36 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2003, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 24 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), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:36 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 1, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Jun 1, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 43 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: 1772 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2629 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 8.9

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The text

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

269 
WFUS54 KMAF 020136
TORMAF
TXC317-020200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
835 PM CDT SUN JUN 1 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 835 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF STANTON
  NEAR HIGHWAY 307. RADAR SHOWED THE TORNADIC STORM MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
  STANTON

A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING NOW.
MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE NOT SAFE.

LAT...LON 3215 10189 3209 10184 3210 10170 3223 10170

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin, Midland	61 min
Jun 1, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	37 min
Jun 1, 8:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell, Scurry	66 min
Jun 1, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	30 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.