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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 26, 1995, 5:56 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 1995, 5:56 PM CDT (22:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1995, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pecos County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 139 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 262256 TORMAF TXC371-270000- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 556 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST TEXAS ...NORTHERN PECOS COUNTY AT 555 PM CDT...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO LOCATED JUST NORTHWEST OF FORT STOCKTON. THIS TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES PER HOUR. THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EARLIER IN EFFECT FOR PECOS COUNTY. 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. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TELEVISION OR RAD8IO FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND WARNINGS.
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, 3:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Loving | 56 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, 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 |
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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.