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Tornado Warning 51, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 28, 1995Upton County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 28, 1995, 6:54 PM CDT for Upton County, Texas. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 28, 1995, 6:54 PM CDT (23:54 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 1995, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Upton County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 66 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 1995-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 28 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 1995-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 84 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
28 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-208 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2342 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 282354
TORMAF
TXC461-290100-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
654 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST TEXAS
 
   ...SOUTHERN UPTON COUNTY
 
AT 654 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 4
MILES SOUTHWEST OF MCCAMEY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES
AN HOUR.
 
DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO.  CARS ARE EASILY
TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS.  IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF
A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING.  IF NO
STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEKF SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 2:28 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFUpton28 min
May 28, 3:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFUpton58 min
May 28, 3:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMidland57 min
May 28, 3:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGlasscock65 min
May 28, 3:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFTerrell62 min
May 28, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMidland62 min
May 28, 6:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane64 min
May 28, 6:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFUpton66 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.