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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 12, 1994Midland County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 12, 1994, 4:52 PM CDT for Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 12, 1994, 4:52 PM CDT (21:52 UTC)
Expired: May 12, 1994, 5:51 PM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Midland County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 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.

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: 612 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -154 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 770 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 178 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.9

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 122152
TORMAF
TXC329-122300-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
452 PM CDT THU MAY 12 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST TEXAS
 
   ...WESTERN MIDLAND COUNTY
 
AT 450 PM CDT...OBSERVERS AT THE MIDLAND WEATHER OFFICE REPORT A TORNADO
FORMING 6 SOUTHWEST OF THE MIDLAND INTERANTIONAL AIRPORT. MOVEMENT IS
TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
 
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.
 
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 HOMES
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
May 11, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	58 min
May 11, 7:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Howard	118 min
May 11, 7:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Pecos	3 hr
May 11, 7:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	68 min
May 11, 8:46 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Upton	3 hr
May 11, 9:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Glasscock	3 hr
May 12, 12:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Andrews, Gaines	3 hr
May 12, 1:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Ector	57 min
May 12, 1:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos	56 min
May 12, 2:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	62 min
May 12, 3:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Pecos	117 min
May 12, 3:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Upton	117 min
May 12, 3:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	59 min
May 12, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	65 min
May 12, 5:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Pecos	3 hr
May 12, 5:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Upton	3 hr
May 12, 5:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Martin	2 hr
May 12, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Howard	62 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.