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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 2003, 6:55 PM CDT for Borden County, Texas. It was in force for 50 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 3, 2003, 6:55 PM CDT (23:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2003, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Borden County, TX
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 3, 3:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 1343 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -333 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1779 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 288 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
875
WFUS54 KMAF 032355
TORMAF
TXC033-040045-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
654 PM CDT TUE JUN 3 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EASTERN BORDEN COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS
* UNTIL 745 PM CDT
* AT 654 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES NORTHEAST
OF GAIL...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
LAKE J.B. THOMAS
A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME-TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES
AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS.
LAT...LON 3292 10122 3293 10142 3273 10145 3254 10145
3255 10120
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 45 min |
| Jun 3, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 45 min |
| Jun 3, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector, Winkler | 44 min |
| Jun 3, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane | 42 min |
| Jun 3, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 62 min |
| Jun 3, 5:41 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 60 min |
| Jun 3, 6:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Midland | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Scurry | 55 min |
| Jun 3, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane | 25 min |
| Jun 3, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane | 62 min |
| Jun 3, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 31 min |
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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.