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Tornado Warning 54, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 1992, 8:45 PM CDT for Dawson County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 1992, 8:45 PM CDT (01:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1992, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dawson County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 140145 TORMAF TXC115-140245- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 845 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST TEXAS ...DAWSON COUNTY AT 835 PM CDT...A STORM SPOTTER INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO DEVELOPING JUST NORTH OF THE CITY OF LAMESA. THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IN LAMESA VERIFIED A POSSIBLE TORNADO DEVELOPING IN THIS AREA. AT 840 PM CDT...RADAR ALSO INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST TO THE NORTH OF LAMESA. PEOPLE IN THE CITY OF LAMESA SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. 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, Jun 13, 4:47 PM CDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-132240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 339 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PORTION OF WEST TEXAS UNTIL 10 PM CDT... AT 430 PM CDT...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HAVE RAIN WAS LOCATED NORTHWEST OF ABILENE MOVING SOUTH 15 MILES AN HOUR. AN AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...ONE WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED IN IN VICINITY OF MARATHON. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED. ANOTHER AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...ONE WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... WAS LOCATED FROM NORTHWEST OF LUBBOCK TO NORTH OF PLAINS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...AND FLOODING OF STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 4:51 PM CDT, 3 hours 54 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-132240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 339 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PORTION OF WEST TEXAS UNTIL 10 PM CDT... AT 430 PM CDT...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED NORTHWEST OF ABILENE MOVING SOUTH 15 MILES AN HOUR. AN AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...ONE WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED IN IN VICINITY OF MARATHON. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED. ANOTHER AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...ONE WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... WAS LOCATED FROM NORTHWEST OF LUBBOCK TO NORTH OF PLAINS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNINdG...GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 5:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-132340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 539 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PORTION OF WEST TEXAS UNTIL 10 PM CDT... AT 532 PM CDT...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED NORTHWEST OF LUBBOCK MOVING EAST 10 MILES AN HOUR. A TORNADO WAS REPORTED FROM THIS STORM DURING THE PAST HOUR. A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED NORTH OF SEMINOLE MOVING EAST 10 MILES AN HOUR. A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS ALSO LOCATED NORTHEAST OF MARATHON. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS ...SOME HAIL...AND FLOODIVNG OF LOW LYING AREAS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 6:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-140040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 643 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PORTION OF WEST TEXAS UNTIL 10 PM CDT... AT 634 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED NORTHEAST OF SEMINOLE...NORTH OF BROWNFIELD...AND NORTH OF LUBBOCK MOVING EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...SOME HAIL...AND FLOODING OF LOW AREAS. ELSEWHERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED EAST AND SOUTH OF MARATHON. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 7:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-140140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 736 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PORTION OF WEST TEXAS UNTIL 10 PM CDT... AT 729 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL WERE LOCATED NORTHWEST OF LAMESA AND TAHOKA. A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS ALSO LOCATED IN VICINITY OF LUBBOCK. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. T HESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL...AND FLOODING OF LOW AREAS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 69 min |
| Jun 13, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 66 min |
| Jun 13, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 9:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Dawson | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 10:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson, Martin | 63 min |
| Jun 13, 10:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Martin | 57 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.