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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 27, 1991, 5:40 PM CST for Dawson County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 27, 1991, 5:40 PM CST (23:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 27, 1991, 6:45 PM CST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dawson County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 699 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 719 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 272341 RRA TORMAF TXC115-280045- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 540 PM CST SUN OCT 27 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST TEXAS ...DAWSON COUNTY AT 539 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 12 MILES WEST OF LAMESA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS EXTENDS THE TORNADO WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR DAWSON COUNTY. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
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, Oct 27, 3:52 PM CST, 1 hour 48 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-272250- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 345 PM CST SUN OCT 27 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO UNTIL 900 PM CST... AT 325 PM CST...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SOUTHWEST OF ODESSA...NEAR MERTZON...NEAR BRONTE...AND NORTHEAST OF ANDREWS. OTHER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS STRETCHED FROM NEAR BLEDSOE TO NEAR WELCH TO NEAR ROTAN AND REACHED AS FAR SOUTH AS OZONA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH 20 MILES AN HOUR. DURING A TORNADO WATCH...BE READY TO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND OR TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE IF A WARNING IS I4SSUED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION FOR ADDITIONAL 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 8:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Howard | 62 min |
| Oct 27, 4:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector, Midland | 66 min |
| Oct 27, 4:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector, Midland | 62 min |
| Oct 27, 5:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Andrews, Ector, Martin, Midland | 56 min |
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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.