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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 6, 1991Dawson County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 6, 1991, 6:03 PM CDT for Dawson County, Texas. It was in force for 57 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: Jun 6, 1991, 6:03 PM CDT (23:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 1991, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Dawson County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 6, 6:25 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Dawson, TX

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

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 91 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 062304
TORMAF
TXC115-070000-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
603 PM CDT THU JUN 6 1991
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHWEST TEXAS
 
   ...DAWSON COUNTY
 
AT 603 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN THE SOUTHWEST
CORNER OF DAWSON COUNTY.
 
MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 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, 3 hours 16 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, 4:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos	67 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, 6:20 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.