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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1989, 6:41 PM CDT for Howard County, Texas. It was in force for 64 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
- Jun 2, 1989, 6:41 PM CDT (23:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1989, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Howard 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Howard, TX | |
| Jun 2, 7:23 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Howard, 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 1480 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -161 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 909 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMAF 022342
TORMAF
TXC227-030045-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
641 PM CDT FRI JUN 2 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTHWEST TEXAS
...HOWARD
AT 640 PM...RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 8 MILES NORTH OF BIG
SPRING. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
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.The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 7:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Howard | 37 min |
| Jun 1, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 62 min |
| Jun 1, 9:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Dawson | 49 min |
| Jun 1, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 64 min |
| Jun 1, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 61 min |
| Jun 1, 11:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Howard | 41 min |
| Jun 2, 12:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 29 min |
| Jun 2, 12:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Howard | 94 min |
| Jun 2, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 66 min |
| Jun 2, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 63 min |
| Jun 2, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Loving | 60 min |
| Jun 2, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 58 min |
| Jun 2, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Dawson | 65 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.