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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 18, 1986, 12:15 PM CDT for Martin County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min. 2 reports 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
- Jun 18, 1986, 12:15 PM CDT (17:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1986, 1:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Martin 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 12:21 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Martin, TX | |
| Jun 18, 12:33 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Martin, 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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 46 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
- 762 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 569 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAAOO KMAF 181724 RRA
TORMAF
TXC317-181815-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1215 PM CDT WED JUN 18 1986
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES:
IN NORTHWEST TEXAS
..SOUTHEASTERN MARTIN
AT 1213 CDT A TORNADO HAS BEEN SIGHTED 10 MILES NORTH OF STANTON
MOVING SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHEAST.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE, SEEK SHELTER I~N A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT, SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT, DITCH OR
LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.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 18, 6:39 AM CDT, 5 hours 36 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 635 AM CDT WED JUN 18 1986 ...THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVY RAIN IN PERMIAN BASIN... AT 625 AM CDT..THUNDERSTORMS..SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE SCATTERED FROM WEST OF LUBBOCK TO NEAR OZONA MOVING SOUTH. OVER ONE HALF INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN AT MIDLAND REGIONAL AIRPORT DURING THE LAST HOUR. THESE BRIEF HEAVY RAINS WILL CAUSE SOME FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS THROUGHOUT THE PERMIAN BASIN THIS MORNING. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION WHEN DRIVING IN AREAS THAT ARE FLOOD PRONE. REMEMBER IT IS DIFFICULT TO TELL HOW DEEP THE WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS ACTUALLY IS. IF POSSIBLE LEAVE EARLY FOR WORK THIS MORNINHG ALLOWING PLENTY OF TIME TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION.
Local storm report, Jun 18, 9:43 AM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORTS...UPDATED.
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
940 AM CDT WEDNESDAY JUNE 18,1986
DELAYED STORM REPORTS FOR MONDAY 16, 1986
TIME(CDT) COUNTY EVENT
728 PM ANDREWS ANDREWS REPORTED PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL. WALL
OF DUST MOVING IN FROM THE NORTH. HEAVY RAINFALL.
756 PM MIDLAND 61 MPH WIND GUST AT MIDLAND WSO. CESSNA 172
FLIPPED OVER AND DAMAGED. AIRPORT SAID THE 172
WAS TIED DOWN.
811 PM WARD MARBLE SIZE HAIL AT PYOTE.
PEA SIZE HAIL AT MONAHANS WITH HEAVY RAIN.
820 PM ECTOR WINDS 60 MPH REPORTED BY ODESSA FIRE DEPARTMENT.
945 PM CRANE WINDS 60 MPH REPORTED BY CRANE SHERIFF DEPARTMENT.
POWER LINES DOWN.
CRANE CIVIL DEFENSE DIRECTOR REPORTED MARBLE SIZE
HAIL, WINDS 55 MPH AND 1.7" RAIN IN 45 MINUTES.
TESCO REPORTED EIGHT TELEPHONE POLES
DOWN 8 MILES SOUTH OF PENWELL.Special weather statement, Jun 18, 10:43 AM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1035 AM CDT WED JUN 18 1986 ...HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS OVER PERMIAN BASIN... AT 1026 AM CDT AN AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS..SOME HEAVY..CONTINUED OVER THE NORTHERN PERMIAN BASIN AND SOUTH PLAINS EXTENDING EAST INTO THE BIG COUNTRY AND SOUTHEAST INTO THE CONCHO VALLEY. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. AS THE WESTERN SOUTH PLAINS AND NORTHERN PERMIAN BASIN HAS HAD CONSIDER- ABLE RAINFALL THIS MORNING..OVER AN INCH AN A HALF IN SOME PLACES.. ADDITIONAL LOCAL RAINFALL TOTALS MAY CAUSE STREET AND LOW WATER CROSSING FLOODING. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO EXERCISE CAUTION.
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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.