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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 9, 1995Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 1995, 8:15 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

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

County Pecos County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:18 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 00:00Z, 1.3 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1995-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1995-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3699 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 100116
TORMAF
TXC371-100215-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
815 PM CDT FRI JUN 9 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
 
   ...WESTERN PECOS COUNTY
 
AT 814 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
POSSIBLE TORNADO 36 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT STOCKTON. MOVEMENT WAS
NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING.  AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH
OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 7:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos56 min
Jun 9, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos60 min
Jun 9, 10:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos65 min
Jun 10, 3:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReeves68 min
Jun 10, 4:19 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFPecos56 min
Jun 10, 5:31 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFPecos59 min
Jun 10, 5:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines62 min
Jun 10, 5:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews68 min
Jun 10, 6:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFDawson57 min
Jun 10, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBorden56 min
Jun 10, 6:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos67 min
Jun 10, 6:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFWinkler65 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.