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Tornado Warning 43, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 1995, 6:02 PM CDT for Loving County, Texas; Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1995, 6:02 PM CDT (23:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1995, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Eddy County, NM, Loving County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 965 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -195 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1247 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 292302 TORMAF NMC015-TXC301-300000- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 602 PM CDT (502 PM MDT) THU JUN 29 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT (600 PM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO ...SOUTHEASTERN EDDY COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS ...LOVING COUNTY AT 500 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MALAGA. SPOTTERS HAVE INDICATED THAT THIS STORM HAS ALREADY PRODUCED SEVERAL FUNNELS. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST 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.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 12:02 PM CDT, 6 hours before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-300500- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1201 PM CDT (1101 AM MDT) THU JUN 29 1995 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST TEXAS: ANDREWS DAWSON GLASSCOCK MARTIN REEVES WARD BORDEN ECTOR HOWARD MIDLAND TERRELL WINKLER CRANE GAINES LOVING PECOS UPTON AND IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO: EDDY LEA SYNOPSIS: A COLD FRONT LOCATED IN THE SOUTHERN SOUTH PLAINS IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHWARD THIS AFTERNOON...ENTERING THE NORTHERN PERMIAN BASIN AND NORTHERN LEA COUNTY, NEW MEXICO. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO FORM ALONG AND SOUTH OF THIS FRONT LATER TODAY. WITH WARM AND MOIST AIR COVERING THE PERMIAN BASIN AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO THERE IS THE LIKELIHOOD THAT SOME OF THE STORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT MAY BECOME SEVERE. THE COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN THE REGION OVERNIGHT... CONTINUING TO ACT AS A FOCUS FOR FURTHER THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SERVICES SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION ACROSS THE PERMIAN BASIN AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. MATHEWS WUUS01KCLE /
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 12:02 PM CDT, 6 hours before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-300500- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1201 PM CDT (1101 AM MDT) THU JUN 29 1995 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST TEXAS: ANDREWS DAWSON GLASSCOCK MARTIN REEVES WARD BORDEN ECTOR HOWARD MIDLAND TERRELL WINKLER CRANE GAINES LOVING PECOS UPTON AND IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO: EDDY LEA SYNOPSIS: A COLD FRONT LOCATED IN THE SOUTHERN SOUTH PLAINS IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHWARD THIS AFTERNOON...ENTERING THE NORTHERN PERMIAN BASIN AND NORTHERN LEA COUNTY, NEW MEXICO. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO FORM ALONG AND SOUTH OF THIS FRONT LATER TODAY. WITH WARM AND MOIST AIR COVERING THE PERMIAN BASIN AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO THERE IS THE LIKELIHOOD THAT SOME OF THE STORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT MAY BECOME SEVERE. THE COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN THE REGION OVERNIGHT... CONTINUING TO ACT AS A FOCUS FOR FURTHER THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SERVICES SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION ACROSS THE PERMIAN BASIN AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. MATHEWS WUUS01KCLE /
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 4:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-292240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 434 PM CDT (334 PM MDT) THU JUN 29 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE DEVELOPING IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWEST TEXAS... AT 425 PM CDT (325 PM MDT)...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED IN AN AREA EXTENDING FROM CARLSBAD NEW MEXICO TO 15 MILES EAST OF MALAGA NEW MEXICO. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE WIDELY SCATTERED FROM 18 MILES SOUTH OF FORT STOCKTON TO 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARATHON. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THROUGH 530 PM CDT (430 PM MDT)...FURTHER INTENSIFICATION OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED. SMALL HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. SOME STORMS...PARTICULARLY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...MAY APPROACH SEVERE LIMITS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. JACKSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 68 min |
| Jun 29, 6:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Reeves | 64 min |
| Jun 29, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 56 min |
| Jun 29, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 62 min |
| Jun 29, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 64 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Texas, 1995Tornado Warnings in New Mexico, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.