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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 25, 1987, 7:32 PM CDT for Crane County, Ward County, Texas. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 1987, 7:32 PM CDT (00:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 1987, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crane County, TX, Ward 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 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 1608 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 900 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 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 260032 RRB
TORMAF
TXC103-135-475-260130-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTION...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
732 PM CDT MON MAY 25 1987
...CORRECTION...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
...CRANE...WARD
A TORNADO IS REPORTED ON THE GROUND...APPROACHING MONAHANS...AT 732
PM CDT. RADAR INDICATES THIS STORM MAY ENTER CRANE COUNTY...DURING
THE NEXT 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.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 57 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 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, 4:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Andrews | 59 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 |
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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.