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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 2, 1991Borden County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1991, 11:02 AM CDT for Borden County, Texas. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 1991, 11:02 AM CDT (16:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 1991, 12:00 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Borden County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 114 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: 2780 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 857 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 5.7

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 021602
TORMAF
TXC033-021700-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1102 AM CDT SUN JUN 2 1991
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL NOON CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHWEST TEXAS
 
   ...BORDEN COUNTY
 
AT 1058 AM CDT...A SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR HIGHWAY 87 IN THE
NORTHWEST CORNER OF HOWARD COUNTY. THE TORNADO IS MOVING NORTHEAST
AND IS MOVING INTO BORDEN COUNTY AT THIS TIME.
 
 
 
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
SUZCH 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 2, 12:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Borden	55 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.