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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 11, 1994Ector County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 11, 1994, 3:07 PM CDT for Ector County, Texas. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 11, 1994, 3:07 PM CDT (20:07 UTC)
Expired: May 11, 1994, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 68 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Ector County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 34 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: 1254 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 623 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 259 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 291 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.0
Supercell composite: 10.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 112007
TORMAF
TXC135-112115-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
307 PM CDT WED MAY 11 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST TEXAS
 
   ...ECTOR COUNTY
 
AT 305 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A POSSBLE TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTH OF
GOLDSMITH. MOVEMENT NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
 
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 REI NFORCED 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 10, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Loving, Reeves	45 min
May 10, 9:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Winkler	66 min
May 10, 10:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	62 min
May 10, 11:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	55 min
May 11, 12:05 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Martin, Midland	40 min
May 11, 12:42 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Martin	48 min
May 11, 1:20 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Howard	40 min
May 11, 1:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	61 min
May 11, 2:14 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Howard	3 hr
May 11, 3:08 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Howard	3 hr
May 11, 3:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	91 min
May 11, 3:29 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Howard	46 min
May 11, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	60 min
May 11, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	70 min
May 11, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Ward	62 min
May 11, 5:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Midland	115 min
May 11, 5:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	65 min
May 11, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Winkler	69 min
May 11, 6:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Crane	2 hr

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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.