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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 22, 1992Reeves County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 22, 1992, 2:58 PM CDT for Reeves County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min. 2 reports 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: May 22, 1992, 2:58 PM CDT (19:58 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 1992, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Reeves County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 22, 3:06 PM CDT	Tornado F2	Reeves, TX
May 22, 3:46 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Reeves, 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 158 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: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 64 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 221958
TORMAF
TXC389-222100-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
258 PM CDT FRI MAY 22 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
 
   ...NORTHERN REEVES COUNTY
 
AT 252 PM CDT...THE SHERIFFS OFFICE IN REEVES COUNTY REPORTED A
TORNADO ON THE GROUND JUST WEST OF ORLA. MOVEMENT OF THE TORNADO WAS
NORTHEAST 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 CL OSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 1:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reeves	65 min
May 22, 2:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reeves	69 min
May 22, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Loving	62 min
May 22, 4:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Reeves	68 min
May 22, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	65 min
May 22, 5:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Ward	56 min
May 22, 6:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Reeves	3 hr
May 22, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reeves	59 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.