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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

August 10, 1991Midland County, Texas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1991-08-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 509 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1991-08-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 80 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 10, 2:45 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFEctor60 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.