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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

March 27, 1992Andrews County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 27, 1992, 8:33 PM CST for Andrews County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min. 1 report 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: Mar 27, 1992, 8:33 PM CST (02:33 UTC)
Expired: Mar 27, 1992, 9:30 PM CST
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Andrews County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 27, 8:34 PM CST	Hail 1.75	Andrews, 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 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 57 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: 318 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1780 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 280233
TORMAF
TXC003-280330-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
833 PM CST FRI MAR 27 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHWEST TEXAS
 
   ...EASTERN ANDREWS COUNTY
 
AT 831 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO BETWEEN GOLDSMITH
AND ANDREWS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL PASS
VERY NEAR THE CITY OF ANDREWS.
 
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 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
Mar 27, 7:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ward	64 min
Mar 27, 8:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane	58 min
Mar 27, 8:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector, Midland	65 min
Mar 27, 8:38 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Martin	67 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.