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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 2, 1986, 6:33 PM CDT for Upton County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 2, 1986, 6:33 PM CDT (23:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 2, 1986, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 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, 11.6 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
- 1174 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 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 022333
TORMAF
TXC461-030030-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
633 PM CDT THU OCT 2 1986
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES:
IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
..SOUTHERN UPTON
AT 631 PM CDT THE UPTON COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED THAT A
POSSIBLE TORNADO HIT THE NORTHEAST PART OF RANKIN TEXAS. A METAL
STORAGE BUILDING WAS BLOWN INTO TWO CARS..A POWER POLE WAS DOWN AND
TWO LARGE TREES WERE DOWN.
AT 632 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN NEAR
RANKIN TEXAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN
THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A 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, Oct 2, 1:35 PM CDT, 4 hours 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 135 PM CDT THU OCT 2 1986 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTION OF THE PERMAIN BASIN.. SOUTH PLAINS AND THE CONCHO VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... AT 125 PM CDT..SOME VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE SOUTH OF LUCCOCK TO NORTH OF LAMESA. OTHER SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN SOUTNEAST NEW MEXICO AND THE SOUTH PLAINS. A NEW AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED NEAR SANDERSON. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. VERY HEAVY RAIN..FREQUENT LIGHTNING..STRONG GUSTY WINDS..AND SOME SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS. STREET FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED I!N MANY LOCAL AREAS. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION THIS MORNING DURING TO HIGH WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS.
Special weather statement, Oct 2, 2:31 PM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 235 PM CDT THU OCT 2 1986 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE PERMAIN BASIN..SOUTH PLAINS.. THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...AND FOR THE CONCHO VALLEY..FAR WEST TEXAS.. AND THE PECOS VALLEY TONIGHT.. AT 225 PM CDT..SCATTERED VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN THE SOUTH PLAINS JUST SOUTH AND EAST OF LUBBOCK. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS BETWEEN FORT STOCKTON AND SANDERSON. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. VERY HEAVY RAIN..FREQUENT LIGHTNING..STRONG GUSTY WINDS..AND SOME SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS. STREET FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED IN MANY, LOCAL AREAS. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION THIS MORNING DURING TO HIGH WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS.
Special weather statement, Oct 2, 2:41 PM CDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 235 PM CDT THU OCT 2 1986 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE PERMAIN BASIN..SOUTH PLAINS.. THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...AND FOR THE CONCHO VALLEY..FAR WEST TEXAS.. AND THE PECOS VALLEY TONIGHT.. AT 225 PM CDT..SCATTERED VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN THE SOUTH PLAINS JUST SOUTH AND EAST OF LUBBOCK. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS BETWEEN FORT STOCKTON AND SANDERSON. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. VERY HEAVY RAIN..FREQUENT LIGHTNING..STRONG GUSTY WINDS..AND SOME SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS. STREET FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED IN 6MANY LOCAL AREAS. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION DUE TO HIGH WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS.
Special weather statement, Oct 2, 3:29 PM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 335 PM CDT THU OCT 2 1986 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE PERMAIN BASIN..SOUTH PLAINS.. THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...AND FOR THE CONCHO VALLEY..FAR WEST TEXAS.. AND THE PECOS VALLEY TONIGHT.. AT 325 PM CDT..SCATTERED VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN THE SOUTH PLAINS IN THE LUBBOCK AREA. OTHER VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE JUST WEST OF GOLDSMITH AND BETWEEN FORT STOCKTON AND SANDERSON. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. VERY HEAVY RAIN..FREQUENT LIGHTNING..STRONG GUSTY WINDS..AND SOME SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS. STREET FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED IN MANY LOCAL AREAS. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION DUE TO HIGH WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS.
Special weather statement, Oct 2, 4:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 436 PM CDT THU OCT 2 1986 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE PERMAIN BASIN..SOUTH PLAINS.. THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...AND FOR THE CONCHO VALLEY..FAR WEST TEXAS.. AND THE PECOS VALLEY TONIGHT.. AT 427 PM CDT..SCATTERED VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS PARTS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS FROM NORTHEAST OF LUBBOCK AND EXTENDED INTO SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO NORTH OF HOBBS. OTHER SCATTERED VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED OVER THE PERMIAN BASIN AND SOUTHWEST TEXAS FROM NORTHWEST OF MIDLAND TO GUADALUPE PASS EXTENDING ALONG THE PECOS RIVER TO IRAAN. THE HEAVIEST STORMS WERE NORTH OF GOLDSMITH AND NORTH OF KERMIT. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. VERY HEAVY RAIN..FREQUENT LIGHTNING..STRONG GUSTY WINDS..AND SOME SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS. STREET FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED IN MANY LOCAL AREAS. O MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION DUE TO HIGH WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 5:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 66 min |
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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.