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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 5, 1991Reeves County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 1991, 3:49 PM CDT for Reeves County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 5, 1991, 3:49 PM CDT (20:49 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 1991, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Reeves County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 158 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: 2826 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -111 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1186 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 136 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 5, 2:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-052045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
230 PM CDT WED JUN 5 1991

...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN WEST TEXAS AND NEW MEXICO...

AT 230 PM CDT...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL
WAS WEST OF BALMORHEA AND SARAGOSA. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY
HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL WAS WEST OF CARLSBAD NEW MEXICO.

OTHER WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE BUILDING RAPIDLY ACROSS MUCH
OF WEST TEXAS AND NEW MEXICO WITH THE STRONGEST BEING OBSERVED WEST OF
FORT STOCKTON AND SOUTHWEST OF MARFA.

VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT IS BEING OBSERVED WITH MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHwER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reeves	59 min
Jun 4, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reeves	59 min
Jun 5, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reeves	60 min
Jun 5, 3:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos, Ward	69 min
Jun 5, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Winkler	57 min
Jun 5, 4:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos	61 min
Jun 5, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	55 min
Jun 5, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	68 min
Jun 5, 5:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Ector	57 min
Jun 5, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	58 min
Jun 5, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	60 min
Jun 5, 3:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Chaves, Eddy	55 min
Jun 5, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Chaves	50 min
Jun 5, 5:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Lea	56 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.