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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Aug 10, 1991, 3:18 PM CDT for Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 1991, 3:18 PM CDT (20:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 1991, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Midland County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 18 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
- 509 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1143 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 102019 TORMAF TXC329-102115- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 318 PM CDT SAT AUG 10 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS ...WESTERN MIDLAND COUNTY AT 317 PM CDT...A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS BEING OBSERVED SOUTH OF THE MIDLAND AIRPORT. MOVEMENT IS NORTH 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 BLANKETS0...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, Aug 10, 2:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
TXZ013-014-016-051-053-NMZ013-101940- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 203 PM CDT SAT AUG 10 1991 ...TORNADO WARNING FOR LEA COUNTY CANCELED... .AT 200 PM CDT...100 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORM THAT CAUSED THE TORNADO JUST NORTH OF HOBBS HAS DIED DOWN TO A SHOWER. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO ARE GROWING IN STRENGTH AND OTHER SHORT LIVED TORNADOS AND HAIL MAY BE OBSERVERED DURING THE AFTERNOON. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 2:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector | 60 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.