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Tornado Warning 29, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 25, 1992, 12:14 AM CDT for Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 1992, 12:14 AM CDT (05:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 1992, 1:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Midland County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 556 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 928 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 250513 TORMAF TXC329-250615- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1214 AM CDT MON MAY 25 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS ...MIDLAND COUNTY AT 1213 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST EAST OF GARDENDALE MOVING INTO MIDLAND COUNTY. PEOPLE IN THE CITY OF MIDLAND SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE COVER...THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM. THE STORM PRODUCING THIS POSSIBLE TORNADO IS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HO 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.
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, May 24, 6:32 PM CDT, 5 hours 42 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-250040- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 625 PM CDT SUN MAY 24 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO INCLUDING THE PERMIAN BASIN...TRANS PECOS AND THE SOUTHERN SOUTH PLAINS UNTIL 10 PM CDT... ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF WEST TEXAS TONIGHT... AT 625 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SOUTHWEST OF FORT STOCKTON...NEAR PECOS...NORTHEAST OF SARAGOSA...EAST OF GUADALUPE PASS...IN THE BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK AND WEST OF CARLSBAD IN NEW MEXICO. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 9:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Gaines, Winkler | 55 min |
| May 24, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Winkler | 58 min |
| May 24, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 55 min |
| May 24, 11:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Andrews, Ector | 29 min |
| May 24, 11:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector | 63 min |
| May 25, 12:43 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector | 62 min |
| May 25, 1:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Howard | 50 min |
| May 25, 1:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 60 min |
| May 25, 6:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Loving | 56 min |
| May 25, 7:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ward | 69 min |
| May 25, 9:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector, Midland | 60 min |
| May 25, 9:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Midland | 3 hr |
| May 25, 2:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 58 min |
| May 25, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 58 min |
| May 25, 5:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Terrell | 68 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.