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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 5, 1995Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 5, 1995, 4:14 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 5, 1995, 4:14 PM CDT (21:14 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 1995, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 61 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, 9.2 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 766 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -91 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 541 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 178 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 289 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 4.7

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 052114
TORMAF
TXC371-052215-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
414 PM CDT FRI MAY 5 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CDT (415 PM MDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WEST TEXAS

   ...EASTERN PECOS COUNTY
 
AT 410 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 10
MILES WEST OF BAKERSFIELD. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN
HOUR.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IN A HOME OR
BUSINESS IS AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID
WINDOWS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 4, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Terrell	69 min
May 4, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	64 min
May 4, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Terrell	49 min
May 4, 10:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	61 min
May 4, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Midland	60 min
May 4, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	60 min
May 4, 11:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	62 min
May 5, 7:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reeves	62 min
May 5, 8:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Winkler	64 min
May 5, 11:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	57 min
May 5, 1:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	63 min
May 5, 1:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	66 min
May 5, 2:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector, Midland	49 min
May 5, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Midland	54 min
May 5, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	45 min
May 5, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	63 min
May 5, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Terrell	40 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.