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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 22, 1987, 7:54 PM CDT for Reeves County, Texas. It was in force for 66 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
- May 22, 1987, 7:54 PM CDT (00:54 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1987, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Reeves 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Reeves, TX | |
| May 22, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado F4 | Reeves, 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 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 998 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1548 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMAF 230054
TORMAF
TXC389-230200-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
754 PM CDT FRI MAY 22 1987
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
...SOUTH CENTRAL REEVES
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT MIDLAND REGIONAL AIRPORT INDICATES
A TORNADO ACTIVITY MAY BE OCCURING IN A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...LOCATED
10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PECOS.
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 POSSIBaLE. 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, May 22, 4:17 PM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 410 PM CDT FRI MAY 22 1987 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SOUTHWESTERN REEVES COUNTY UNTIL 430 PM CDT THIS EVENING... AT 355 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON...1 3/4 INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED IN SOUTHWEST REEVES COUNTY. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATES THAT THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST...AT 15 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVlERS THE ROAD.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 7:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Reeves | 2 hr |
| May 22, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 2 hr |
| May 22, 9:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos, Reeves | 56 min |
| May 22, 11:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector | 2 hr |
| May 23, 9:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector, Ward | 54 min |
| May 23, 10:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector, Winkler | 57 min |
| May 23, 10:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 62 min |
| May 23, 10:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 65 min |
| May 23, 10:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 55 min |
| May 23, 11:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 62 min |
| May 23, 11:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Winkler | 77 min |
| May 23, 2:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 58 min |
| May 23, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 60 min |
| May 23, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 28 min |
| May 23, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 50 min |
| May 23, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Loving | 59 min |
| May 23, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 56 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.