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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 3, 1989Crane County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 1989, 6:52 PM CDT for Crane County, Texas. It was in force for 68 min. 3 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 3, 1989, 6:52 PM CDT (23:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 1989, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 68 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Crane 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
Jun 3, 6:58 PM CDT	Hail 2.5	Crane, TX
Jun 3, 7:00 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Crane, TX
Jun 3, 7:10 PM CDT	Hail 2.5	Crane, 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 65 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 246 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 369 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 032353
TORMAF
TXC103-040100-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
652 PM CDT SAT JUN 3 1989
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
          ...CRANE...INCLUDING THE CITY OF CRANE...
 
AT 645 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...POSSIBLY WITH
A TORNADO...IN SOUTHERN CRANE COUNTY.
 
AT 646 PM CDT...THE CRANE COUNTY EMERGENCY COORDINATOR REPORTED AN
INDICATION OF A TORNADO...12 MILES WEST OF THE CITY OF CRANE.
 
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
Jun 3, 3:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reeves	56 min
Jun 3, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ward	60 min
Jun 3, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reeves	62 min
Jun 3, 5:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Crane	67 min
Jun 3, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	60 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.