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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 22, 1992Ward County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 22, 1992, 5:34 PM CDT for Ward County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 22, 1992, 5:34 PM CDT (22:34 UTC)
Expired
May 22, 1992, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Ward County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 98 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 1992-05-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1992-05-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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 222234
TORMAF
TXC475-222330-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
534 PM CDT FRI MAY 22 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
 
   ...WARD COUNTY
 
AT 526 PM CDT...THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IN PECOS INDICATED A TORNADO ON
THE GROUND APPROACHING THE CITY OF PECOS. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. AT THIS RATE OF MOVEMENT...THIS STORM
WILL BE ENTERING WESTERN WARD COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES.
 
 
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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 22, 1:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReeves65 min
May 22, 2:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReeves69 min
May 22, 2:58 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFReeves62 min
May 22, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLoving62 min
May 22, 4:37 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFReeves68 min
May 22, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines65 min
May 22, 6:16 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFReeves3 hr
May 22, 6:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReeves59 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.