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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 11, 2003Terrell County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2003, 6:28 PM CDT for Terrell County, Texas. It was in force for 62 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 11, 2003, 6:28 PM CDT (23:28 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2003, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Terrell County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 196 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

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 146 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: 2911 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -132 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 677 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 3.7

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMAF 112328
TORMAF
TXC443-120030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
627 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN TERRELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 626 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER HIGHWAY 349 ABOUT
  11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF THE TERRELL GAS PLANT...OR ABOUT 17 MILES 
  NORTH OF DRYDEN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY
  OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND FUNNEL CLOUDS.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
  DRYDEN AND THE TERRELL GAS PLANT

MOTORISTS 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 3039 10221 2990 10220 2981 10176 3042 10177

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 12:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	65 min
Jun 11, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	65 min
Jun 11, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	25 min
Jun 11, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell	60 min
Jun 11, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Terrell	70 min
Jun 11, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	35 min
Jun 11, 5:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Terrell	62 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.