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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 6, 1991, 4:08 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 1991, 4:08 PM CDT (21:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1991, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pecos County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 062109 TORMAF TXC371-062215- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 408 PM CDT THU JUN 6 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS ...NORTHERN PECOS COUNTY AT 408 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC WAS REPORTING A TORNADO ON IMPERIAL HIGHWAY 6-7 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT STOCKTON. THE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING EAST AT 20 TO 25 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 6, 2:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-062045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 242 PM CDT THU JUN 6 1991 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR LEA COUNTY UNTIL 900 PM CDT THIS THURSDAY EVENING... AT 225 PM CDT AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR ALPINE TO WEST OF ROSWELL. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION IN AND NEAR THrE WATCH AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 60 min |
| Jun 6, 3:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Reeves | 59 min |
| Jun 6, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane | 60 min |
| Jun 6, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ward | 63 min |
| Jun 6, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 60 min |
| Jun 6, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 63 min |
| Jun 6, 6:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Dawson | 57 min |
| Jun 6, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 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.