Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1991
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1991, 12:35 PM CDT for Borden County, Texas. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 1991, 12:35 PM CDT (17:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1991, 1:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 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, 5.6 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 021736 TORMAF TXC033-021830- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1235 PM CDT SUN JUN 2 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST TEXAS ...SOUTHERN BORDEN COUNTY AT 1235 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO FORMING IN SOUTHERN BORDEN COUNTY SOUTH OF GAIL NEAR THE COLORADO RIVER. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING EAST TOWARD LAKE THOMAS AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. 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 2, 12:31 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-DDHHMM- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1225 PM CST SUN JUN 2 1986 ...TORNADO WARNING FOR BORDEN COUNTY EXPIRED AT 12 NOON... AT 1225 PM CDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS FALING OVER PARTS OF WEST TEXAS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM AROUND ACKERLY THROUGH POST TO NEAR CROSBYTON AND REACHED AS FAR EAST AS MCCAULLEY. THE THUNDERSTORM WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS SOUTH OF GAIL. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST 25 MILES AN HOUR. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES ...LIGHTING AND INCREASING WINDS...TUNE IN YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 11:02 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Borden | 58 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.