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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 23, 1986Midland County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 23, 1986, 4:23 PM CST for Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 37 min. 1 report 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: 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

County Midland 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
Apr 23, 4:30 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Midland, 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 18 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 23, 3:18 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos	57 min
Apr 23, 4:23 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Crane, Ector	37 min
Apr 23, 4:32 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Andrews	28 min
Apr 23, 5:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	62 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.