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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 31, 1986, 4:04 PM CDT for Upton County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 1986, 4:04 PM CDT (21:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1986, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Upton County, TX
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 590 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 31, 10:38 AM CDT, 5 hours 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1040 AM CDT SAT MAY 31 1986 ...HEAVY RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS... AT 1030 AM CDT...VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE ENCLOSED WITHIN A 55 MILE WIDE AREA FROM 20 MILES SOUTH OF RANKIN TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF ANDREWS. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS LOCATED AT MCCAMEY AND 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MCCAMEY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER SHOWERS WERE SCATTERED IN THE SONORA AREA. MOVEMENT OF THIS PRECIPITATION WAS UNDETERMINED. THIS RAIN HAS PERSISTED FOR SOMETIME NOW IN THIS AREA AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS CAN BE EXPECTED AND PERSONS IN AND AROUND THESE AREAS SHOU=LD REMAIN ALERT AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND IF IN A FLOOD PRONE AREA.
Special weather statement, May 31, 11:43 AM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1135 AM CDT SAT MAY 31 1986 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE PERMIAN BASIN..CONCHO VALLEY AND THE BIG BEND FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... AT 1130 AM CDT...RAINSHOWERS..SOME HEAVY..WERE ENCLOSED WITHIN A 110 MILE WIDE AREA FROM 10 MILE SOUTH OF MENTONE TO 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SAN ANGELO. HEAVIEST RAIN WAS LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RANKIN. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. RAIN IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS THE PAST FEW DAYS HAS SATURATED MOST OF THE AREA AND WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL EXPECTED PERSONS IN AND AROUND LOW LYING AREAS WILL BE SUBJECT TO FLOODING AND SHOULD EXERCIkSE CAUTION.. ESPECIALLY AT WATER CROSSINGS.
Special weather statement, May 31, 12:31 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1230 PM CDT SAT MAY 31 1986 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE PERMIAN BASIN..CONCHO VALLEY AND THE BIG BEND FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... AT 1225 PM CDT...RAINSHOWERS..SOME HEAVY..WERE SCATTERED FROM NEAR DRYDEN TO SOUTHEAST OF PECOS..AND FROM ROBERT LEE TO CROSBYTON TO WEST OF LEVELLAND. HEAVIEST RAIN WAS LOCATED 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT STOCKTON..AND 25 MILES EAST OF LUBBOCK. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. RAIN IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS THE PAST FEW DAYS HAS SATURATED MOST OF THE AREA AND WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL EXPECTED PERSONS IN AND AROUND LOW LYING AREAS WILL BE SUBJECT TO FLOODING AND SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION.. ESPECIALLY AT WATER CROSSINGS.
Special weather statement, May 31, 1:31 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 130 PM CDT SAT MAY 31 1986 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE PERMIAN BASIN..CONCHO VALLEY AND THE BIG BEND FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... AT 125 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS ARE BUILDING IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO THE CONCHO VALLEY THE BIG BEND REGION AND ALSO THE PERMAIN BASIN. SOME OF THE HEAVIEST STORMS WERE NORTH OF FORT DAVIS AND SOUTH OF GARDEN CITY. THESE STORMS CAN PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN A VERY SHORT TIME. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. RAIN IN WEST TEXAS THE PAST FEW DAYS HAS SATURATED MOST OF THE AREA AND WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL EXPECTED PERSONS IN AND AROUND LOW LYING AREAS WILL BE SUBJECT TO FLOODING AND SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 3:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Crane, Pecos | 61 min |
| May 31, 4:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 56 min |
| May 31, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Upton | 62 min |
| May 31, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 66 min |
| May 31, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Winkler | 61 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.