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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 23, 1986Crane County, Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 23, 1986, 3:18 PM CST for Crane County, Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 23, 1986, 3:18 PM CST (21:18 UTC)
Expired
Apr 23, 1986, 4:15 PM CST
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Crane County, TX, Pecos 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 102 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 1986-04-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 178 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1986-04-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
178 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-631 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1906 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 23, 4:23 PM CSTTornado WarningMAFCrane, Ector37 min
Apr 23, 4:23 PM CSTTornado WarningMAFMidland37 min
Apr 23, 4:32 PM CSTTornado WarningMAFAndrews28 min
Apr 23, 5:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos62 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.