Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 710, NWS Norman, OK

August 22, 2003Hardeman County, Wilbarger County, Texas

NWS Norman, OK issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 2003, 5:19 PM CDT for Hardeman County, Wilbarger County, Texas. It was in force for 56 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
Aug 22, 2003, 5:19 PM CDT (22:19 UTC)
Expired
Aug 22, 2003, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Norman, OK
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Hardeman County, TX, Wilbarger County, TX

The radar

The Altus AFB radar (KFDR), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 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

Fort Sill, OK (KFSI), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 114 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, Fort Sill, OK at 12:00Z on 2003-08-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 427 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Fort Sill, OK at 12:00Z on 2003-08-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -36 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
427 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-227 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2010 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KOUN 222219
SVROKC
TXC197-487-222315-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK
518 PM CDT FRI AUG 22 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HARDEMAN COUNTY IN NORTHERN TEXAS
  WILBARGER COUNTY IN NORTHERN TEXAS

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 518 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
  LOCKETT...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE CHILLICOTHE...LOCKETT...MEDICINE
  MOUND AND VERNON

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WINDS TO 65 MPH ARE LIKELY.

LAT...LON 3402 9938 3413 9928 3435 9957 3411 9975

$$
JAMES

The office that day

Everything else NWS Norman, OK issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 22, 4:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNKnox55 min
Aug 22, 5:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUNFoard39 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.