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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 1989, 7:53 PM CDT for Howard County, Texas. It was in force for 37 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
- Jun 1, 1989, 7:53 PM CDT (00:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 1989, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 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 1, 8:18 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 00:00Z, 0.9 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMAF 020053
TORMAF
TXC227-020130-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
753 PM CDT THU JUN 1 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTHWEST TEXAS
...EASTERN HOWARD
AT 750 PM SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND 3 MILES WEST OF
COAHOMA MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST. FUNNEL CLOUDS...SMALL HAIL AND VERY
HIGH WINDS WERE ALSO REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC IN THIS AREA.
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.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 1, 4:35 PM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 437 PM CDT THU JUN 1 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF WEST TEXAS AND LEA COUNTY NEW MEXICO UNTIL 1000 PM CDT... AT 430 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE NEAR LUBBOCK WITH LITTLE MOVEMENT IN THE PAST HOUR. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE SCATTERED FROM NORTH OF TATUM NEW MEXICO SOUTH TO HOBBS AND TO FORT DAVIS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO/TV STATION FOR FURTHER UPD ATES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Jun 2, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Howard | 64 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.