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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 5, 2003Brewster County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2003, 4:21 PM CDT for Brewster County, Texas. It was in force for 54 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 5, 2003, 4:21 PM CDT (21:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2003, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 54 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), 215 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:24 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 215 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: 40 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -570 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1109 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 448 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

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The text

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

041 
WFUS54 KMAF 052121
TORMAF
TXC043-052215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
419 PM CDT THU JUN 5 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN BREWSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 419 PM CDT...SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 2 MILES NORTH OF       
  ALPINE...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

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

THIS TORNADO IS IN RURAL AREAS TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES 
AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3037 10377 3024 10362 3048 10330 3065 10344

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	46 min
Jun 5, 12:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	65 min
Jun 5, 12:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson	63 min
Jun 5, 12:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	63 min
Jun 5, 1:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell	60 min
Jun 5, 1:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	52 min
Jun 5, 1:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan, Upton	66 min
Jun 5, 1:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	57 min
Jun 5, 1:55 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Howard	4 hr
Jun 5, 1:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	50 min
Jun 5, 2:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	86 min
Jun 5, 2:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	45 min
Jun 5, 2:18 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Mitchell, Scurry	4 hr
Jun 5, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Jeff Davis	64 min
Jun 5, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	48 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.