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Tornado Warning 63, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

September 6, 1992Dawson County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 6, 1992, 6:43 PM CDT for Dawson 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: Sep 6, 1992, 6:43 PM CDT (23:43 UTC)
Expired: Sep 6, 1992, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Dawson County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Sep 6, 6:54 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Dawson, TX
Sep 6, 7:15 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Dawson, 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, 11.7 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.

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: 118 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -441 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2101 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 168 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 211 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 062344
TORMAF
TXC115-070045-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
643 PM CDT SUN SEP 6 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHWEST TEXAS
 
   ...DAWSON COUNTY
 
AT 643 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN SOUTHWESTERN
DAWSON COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM IS SLOWLY EASTWARD.
 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE DHOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 5, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson	69 min
Sep 5, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	55 min
Sep 6, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ward	56 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.