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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 25, 1987, 6:57 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 1987, 6:57 PM CDT (23:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 1987, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pecos 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, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 1266 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -162 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1039 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMAF 252357
TORMAF
TXC371-260100-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
657 PM CDT MON MAY 25 1987
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
...NORTHERN PECOS
RADAR INDICATES A POSSIBLE FUNNEL CLOUD...OR TORNADO...ASSOCIATED
WITH A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT IS SPREADING INTO NORTHERN PECOS
COUNTY AS OF 657 PM CDT.
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.
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 POSSIBLE. 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 25, 4:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 433 PM CDT MON MAY 25 1987 AT 425 PM CDT...A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM HAS DEVELOPED OVER SOUTHWEST TEXAS 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WINK. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WINDS..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING..SMALL HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. FLOODING WILL ALSO OCCURR IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS. OTHER ISOLATED THUNDERSHOWERS WERE FORMING OVER WEST TEXAS FROM WEST OF LUBBOCK AND 18 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PECOS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 9:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 54 min |
| May 25, 10:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 57 min |
| May 25, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ward | 59 min |
| May 25, 5:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Loving, Ward | 42 min |
| May 25, 5:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ward | 99 min |
| May 25, 5:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ward | 39 min |
| May 25, 6:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ward | 54 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.