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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

February 5, 1986Dawson County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Feb 5, 1986, 4:07 PM CST for Dawson County, Texas. It was in force for 53 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Feb 5, 1986, 4:07 PM CST (22:07 UTC)
Expired
Feb 5, 1986, 5:00 PM CST
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Dawson County, TX

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Feb 5, 4:35 PM CSTTornado F0Dawson, TX

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 91 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1986-02-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1986-02-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -55 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
990 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-151 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 052207
TORMAF
TXC115-052300-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
407 PM CST WED FEB 5 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF

NORTHWEST TEXAS...DAWSON

AT 355 PM CST THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY REPORTED A
FUNNEL CLOUD JUST WEST OF PATRICIA IN DAWSON COUNTY.

THE FUNNEL WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.

 IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOU SHOULD GO TO A SAFE PLACE
 IMMEDIATELY...AND YOU SHOULD ASK THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
 TO RELAY YOUR SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS TO THE LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER
 SERVICE OFFICE.

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.