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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 1986, 8:47 PM CDT for Howard County, Texas. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 1986, 8:47 PM CDT (01:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 1986, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Howard 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 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 947 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1533 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAAOO KMAF 020147
TORMAF
TXC227-020245-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
847 PM CDT SUN JUN 1 1986
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES:
IN NORTHWEST TEXAS
..HOWARD INCLUDING THE CITY OF BIG SPRING..
AT 846 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST WEST OF BIG SPRING
TEXAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR AND ANOTHER POSSIBLE TORNADO 5
MILES SOUTHEAST OF ACKERLY TEXAS ALSO MOVING EAST.
TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY!
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN
THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO 2A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE, GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.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, Jun 1, 5:39 PM CDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 538 PM CDT SUN JUNE 1 1986 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR SOUTHWEST TEXAS TONIGHT INCLUDING MIDLAND AND ECTOR COUNTIES... AT 525 PM CDT...A 250 MILE WIDE AREA OF VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM 50 MILES NORTHEAST OF SNYDER TO 15 MILES WEST OF PRESIDIO TEXAS. THE HEAVIEST ACTIVITY WAS JUST NORTH OF ANDREWS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS COULD ALSO PRODUCE LIGHTNING..STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND CAUSE LOCAL FLOODING IN RAIN SATURATED AREAS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO..LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR LATEST DETAILS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 7:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 745 PM CST MON JUN 2 1986 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR UPTON COUNTY UNTIL 1000PM THIS EVENING... AT 730 PM CST VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED BETWEEN STERLING CITY AND FORT STOCKTON. ELSEWHERE..SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS..SOME VERY HEAVY WAS LOCATED IN AN AREA 250 MILES WIDE FROM GUTHRIE EXTENDING SOUTHWEST INTO THE BIG BEND AREA OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL ON ALREADY SATURATED GROUND COULD CAUSE FLOODING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO..LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 55 min |
| Jun 1, 7:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Andrews | 55 min |
| Jun 1, 7:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Dawson | 55 min |
| Jun 1, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 64 min |
| Jun 1, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 55 min |
| Jun 2, 2:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 61 min |
| Jun 2, 6:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Upton | 4 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Texas, 1986Every tornado warning in 1986Tornadoes in 1986
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.