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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 28, 1987, 2:17 AM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 1987, 2:17 AM MDT (08:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1987, 3:15 AM MDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lea County, NM
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 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 1337 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2124 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMAF 280817
TORMAF
NMC025-280915-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
217 AM MDT THU MAY 28 1987
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 AM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO
...LEA
RADAR INDICATES A POSSIBLE TORNADO 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EUNICE NEW
MEXICO MOVING NORTHEAST 30 MILES AN HOUR.
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 BODPY. 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 27, 9:24 PM MDT, 4 hours 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1010 PM CDT WED MAY 27 1987
REPORTS RECEIVED THROUGH 1020 PM CDT WEDNESDAY MAY 27TH 1987
TIME COUNTY EVENT
1835 CDT UPTON TXC461 GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED DPS
1953 CDT PECOS TXC371 FUNNEL CLOUD 3 SW FORT STOCKTON
DIME SIZE HAIL.
1955 CDT UPTON TXC461 FUNNEL CLOUD 15 MILES NORTHEAST
CRANE (CRANE IN CRANE COUNTY)
2020 CDT MIDLAND TXC329 GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 10 MILES SOUTH OF MIDLAND.
2022 CDT MIDLAND TXC329 FUNNEL CLOUD 10 MILES SOUTH OF MIDLAND.
2033 CDT MIDLAND TXC329 2 FUNNEL CLOUDS 10 MILES SOUTH OF MIDLAND.
2034 CDT MIDLAND TXC329 BASEBALL HAIL 2-3 MILES SOUTH OF MIDLAND.
2035 CDT MIDLAND TXC329 QUARTER HAIL 5 MILES SOUTH OF MIDLAND.
2038 CDT MIDLAND TXC329 BASEBALL HAIL 7 TO 8 MILES SOUTH OF MIDLAND.
2039 CDT MIDLAND TXC329 BASEBALL HAIL 10 MILES SOUTH OF MIDLAND.
2041 CDT MIDLAND TXC329 BASEBALL HAIL SOUTH SIDE OF MIDLAND.
2043 CDT CRANE TXC103 BASEBALL HAIL 3 MILES NORTH OF CRANE.
2046 CDT MIDLAND TXC329 UNCONFIRMED TORNADO 2 1/2 SOUTHWEST OF MIDLAND.
2048 CDT MIDLAND TXC329 PUBLIC REPORT OF TORNADO 8-9 MILES
SOUTH MIDLAND.
2015 CDT PECOS TXC371 ROTATING WALL CLOUD WITH FUNNEL
3 MILiES SOUTH FORT STOCKTON.
RECEIVED 2100 CDT.
...END REPORT...The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 2:06 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 54 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.