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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 29, 1987Dawson County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 29, 1987, 5:51 PM CDT for Dawson County, Texas. It was in force for 24 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 29, 1987, 5:51 PM CDT (22:51 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 1987, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Dawson 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 29, 5:53 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Dawson, TX
May 29, 6:10 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Dawson, 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 91 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: 384 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -163 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1262 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 292251
TORMAF
TXC115-292315-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
551 PM CDT FRI MAY 29 1987
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN NORTHWEST TEXAS
          ...NORTHERN DAWSON
 
AT 550 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF
LAMESA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 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 BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Loving, Ward, Winkler	68 min
May 29, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	54 min
May 29, 5:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Borden, Dawson	6 hr
May 29, 6:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Glasscock	43 min
May 29, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard, Martin	58 min
May 29, 6:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Borden, Dawson, Martin	50 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.