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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 8, 1989, 5:52 PM CDT for Ector County, Texas. It was in force for 53 min. 1 report 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
- Sep 8, 1989, 5:52 PM CDT (22:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 1989, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ector 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 5:55 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Ector, 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 34 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
- 500 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -172 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 948 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 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 082254
TORMAF
TXC135-082345-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
552 PM CDT FRI SEP 8 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
...ECTOR
AT 547 PM CDT...PUBLIC REPORTED NICKEL SIZE HAIL IN WEST ODESSA.
AT 550 PM CDT...PUBLIC REPORTED FUNNEL CLOUD SOUTH OF ODESSA...NEAiR
INTERSTATE HIGHWAY 20.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH
OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.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, Sep 8, 2:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 230 PM CDT FRI SEP 8 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS... AT 225 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND RAIN- SHOWERS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING OVER PARTS OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS. THE AREA WAS 110 MILES WIDE AND WAS BETWEEN THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS AND THE BIG BEND. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS INDICATED 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GIRVIN AND 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF MARATHON. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. FLOODING IN LOW-LYING PLACES IS VERY LIKELY BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF MOVEMENT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR LATEST DETAILS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Sep 8, 3:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 340 PM CDT FRI SEP 8 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS... AT 325 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND RAIN- SHOWERS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP OVER PARTS OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS. THE AREA WAS 110 MILES WIDE AND WAS BETWEEN THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS AND THE BIG BEND. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS INDICATED 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PECOS AND 30 MILES SOUTH OF FORT STOCKTON. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED. RAINSHOWERS HAD DEVELOPED OVER THE PERMIAN BASIN...SOUTH PLAINS AND SOUTHEAST CORNER OF NEW MEXICO. NO MOVEMNT HAD BEEN DETERMINED ON THESE RAINSHOWERS. THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. FLOODING IN LOW-LYING PLACES IS VERY LIKELY BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF MOVEMENT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR LATEST DETAILS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Sep 8, 5:37 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 537 PM CDT FRI SEP 8 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN DEVELOPING OVER THE PERMIAN BASIN... AT 525 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND ONE WITH SMALL HAIL CONTINUED TO DEVELOP OVER WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM THAT INDICATED SMALL HAIL WAS 15 MILES SOUTH- WEST OF ODESSA. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED IN A 120 MILE WIDE AREA FROM 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF LUBBOCK TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF FORT DAVIS. THE HEAVIEST STORMS WERE NORTH OF MONAHANS TO NORTHWEST OF BIG SPRING. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE NOTED OVER SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO GENERALLY OVER LEA COUNTY SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST OF HOBBS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS ...SMALL HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO\...LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR LATEST DETAILS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 6:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Midland | 67 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.