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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jul 27, 1990, 4:09 PM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 66 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
- Jul 27, 1990, 4:09 PM MDT (22:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 1990, 5:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chaves County, NM
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 5:00 PM MDT | Tornado F0 | Chaves, NM |
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
El Paso Intl Airport, TX (KELP), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 251 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
- 97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -200 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1422 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 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 KABQ 272210 TORROW NMC005-272315- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM 409 PM MDT FRI JUL 27 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE... IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO ...CHAVES COUNTY AT 4 PM MDT PERSONNEL AT THE ROSWELL AIRPORT SIGHTED A TORNADO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROSWELL NEW MEXICO...MOVING NORTHWEST. 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 RQEINFORCED 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 5:13 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Chaves | 37 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.