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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 23, 1986Crane County, Ector County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 23, 1986, 4:23 PM CST for Crane County, Ector County, Texas. It was in force for 37 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 23, 1986, 4:23 PM CST (22:23 UTC)
Expired
Apr 23, 1986, 5:00 PM CST
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Crane County, TX, Ector 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, 10.4 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.

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

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 232223
TORMAF
TXC135-329-103-232330-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
423 PM CST WED APR 23 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF

SOUTHWEST TEXAS...ECTOR...MIDLAND AND CRANE

AT 415 PM CST A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS NOTED BY RADAR 10 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF PENWELL TEXAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN
HOUR.

 THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY !

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 23, 3:18 PM CSTTornado WarningMAFCrane, Pecos57 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.