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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 26, 1995, 3:49 PM CDT for Loving County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 1995, 3:49 PM CDT (20:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1995, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Loving County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 978 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 275 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 5.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 262049 TORMAF TXC301-262145- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 349 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST TEXAS ...LOVING COUNTY AT 349 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED 8 MILES EAST OF ORLA. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. 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 26, 11:30 AM CDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-270500- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1130 AM CDT (1030 AM MDT) FRI MAY 26 1995 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST TEXAS: ANDREWS DAWSON GLASSCOCK MARTIN REEVES WARD BORDEN ECTOR HOWARD MIDLAND TERRELL WINKLER CRANE GAINES LOVING PECOS UPTON AND IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO: EDDY LEA SYNOPSIS: THE COMBINATION OF A MOIST UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE AND STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHING THE FORECAST AREA THIS AFTERNOON WILL LEAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. RESIDENTS OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO SHOULD KEPEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED. MURDOCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 8:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Terrell | 47 min |
| May 25, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 46 min |
| May 26, 1:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 59 min |
| May 26, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 59 min |
| May 26, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 56 min |
| May 26, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Reeves | 55 min |
| May 26, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Ector | 57 min |
| May 26, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ward | 41 min |
| May 26, 5:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ward | 61 min |
| May 26, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Ector | 55 min |
| May 26, 5:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 64 min |
| May 26, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 60 min |
| May 26, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Upton | 58 min |
| May 26, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 64 min |
| May 26, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 31 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.