Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 1995

Tornado Warning 21, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 26, 1995Terrell County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 26, 1995, 8:10 PM CDT for Terrell County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 26, 1995, 8:10 PM CDT (01:10 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 1995, 9:15 PM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Terrell County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 153 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1430 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Del Rio, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 65 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1430 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1527 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
158 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
6.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 270110
TORMAF
TXC443-270215-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
810 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST TEXAS
 
   ...NORTHERN TERRELL COUNTY
 
AT 809 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE
TORNADO 11 MILES WEST NORTHWEST MOSER.  MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 7:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFTerrell56 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Texas, 1995Every tornado warning in 1995Tornadoes in 1995

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.