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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 1989, 4:41 PM CDT for Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 1989, 4:41 PM CDT (21:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1989, 5:08 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Midland 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 18 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
- 1560 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 627 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMAF 102142
TORMAF
TXC329-102245-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
441 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
...NORTHERN MIDLAND
AT 435 PM CDT A TORNDAO WAS REPORTED BY A OFF DUTY WEATHER SERVICE
EMPLOYEE IN NORTH CENTRAL MIDLAND COUNTY. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING TO
THE NORTH AT 15 MPH.
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, Jun 10, 2:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 225 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 1989 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR WEST TEXAS AND AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO... AT 225 PM CDT...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL...WERE BUILDING RAPIDLY OVER MOST OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. HEAVIEST RAIN WAS LOCATED NEAR SAN ANGELO...30 MILES WEST OF SARAGOSA... AND JUST SOUTH OF THE MIDLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. MARBLE SIZE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN WAS REPORTED AT CHANNEL 9 AT 220 PM. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 65 min |
| Jun 10, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 59 min |
| Jun 10, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 67 min |
| Jun 10, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Martin | 67 min |
| Jun 10, 4:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector | 69 min |
| Jun 10, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 60 min |
| Jun 10, 5:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector | 63 min |
| Jun 10, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 55 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.