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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 26, 1987, 4:31 PM CDT for Andrews County, Texas. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 1987, 4:31 PM CDT (21:31 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1987, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Andrews 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 612 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 624 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 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 262131 TORMAF TXC003-262230- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 431 PM CDT TUE MAY 26 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY... IN NORTHWEST TEXAS WESTERN ANDREWS IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
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
Local storm report, May 26, 1:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 1 minute before
POST LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1138 PM CDT MON MAY 25 1987
TIME COUNTY EVENT
1603 CST WARD TXC475 PUBLIC RTPD FUNNEL 2NE OF BARSTOW.
1652 CST WARD TXC475 PUBLIC REPORTED TORNADO 5S OF BARSTOW.
1735 CST WARD TXC475 GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED AT PYOTE.
1746 CST LEA NMC025 STATE POLICE REPORTED TORNADO 10-15S OF
HOBBS.
1748 CST LEA NMC025 GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AT EUNICE RPTD BY
STATE POLICE.
1809 CST PECOS TXC371 SKYWARN SPOTTER RPTD TORNADO 12SW OF
WARD TXC475 MONAHANS TX.
1823 CST WARD TXC475 SKYWARN SPOTTER RPTD TORNADO SOUTHWEST
OF MONAHANS MOVING NE.
1853 CST LEA NMC025 PUBLIC RPTD TORNADO 25SW OF HOBBS.
1906 CST LEA NMC025 SKYWARN SPOTTER RPTD TORNADO 22SW
HOBBS.
1917 CST LEA NMC025 STATE POLICE RPTD TORNADO 10W OF
MONUMENT.The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Crane, Ward | 58 min |
| May 26, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ward | 33 min |
| May 26, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ward, Winkler | 59 min |
| May 26, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 63 min |
| May 26, 4:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Winkler | 62 min |
| May 26, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 61 min |
| May 26, 5:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector | 54 min |
| May 26, 5:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Andrews | 66 min |
| May 26, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 59 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.