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Tornado Warning 37, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 8, 1995Crane County, Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 1995, 5:02 PM CDT for Crane County, Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1995, 5:02 PM CDT (22:02 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1995, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Crane County, TX, Pecos County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 102 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4480 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 121 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
4480 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
743 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
121 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
133 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.9
Supercell composite
13.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 082203
TORMAF
TXC103-371-082300-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
502 PM CDT THU JUN 8 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN WEST TEXAS
 
   ...CRANE COUNTY...NORTHERN PECOS COUNTY
 
AT 502 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED POSSIBLE TORNADOES 7 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF IMPERIAL AND 9 MILES WEST OF CRANE. THESE STORMS WERE
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
 
PEOPLE IN THE VICINITY OF IMPERIAL TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY!
 
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
Jun 8, 3:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos54 min
Jun 8, 4:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane66 min
Jun 8, 4:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos51 min
Jun 8, 5:44 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFCrane61 min
Jun 8, 6:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFUpton47 min
Jun 8, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFWard53 min
Jun 8, 6:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane61 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.