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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 30, 1996Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 30, 1996, 5:54 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 30, 1996, 5:54 PM CDT (22:54 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 1996, 6:25 PM CDT
In force: 31 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 22:56 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, 10.9 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: 1030 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -190 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 869 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 299 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 311 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 7.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 302255
TORMAF
TXC371-302325-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
554 PM CDT THU MAY 30 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 625 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WEST TEXAS

   ...PECOS COUNTY
 
AT 552 PM CDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND DOPPLER
RADAR 46 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RANKIN OR 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GIRVIN
MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.  PERSONS ON INTERSTATE 10 EAST OF FORT
STOCKTON SHOULD TAKE COVER NOW!

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... BAKERSFIELD
AND GIRVIN.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A
REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

$$

TURNAGE/MEAD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	64 min
May 29, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	62 min
May 29, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines, Martin	62 min
May 29, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	64 min
May 29, 7:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Glasscock	47 min
May 29, 8:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	62 min
May 29, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	62 min
May 29, 8:37 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Glasscock	3 hr
May 29, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	62 min
May 29, 9:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Glasscock	45 min
May 29, 9:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	45 min
May 29, 11:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson, Gaines	32 min
May 30, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reeves	63 min
May 30, 4:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	64 min
May 30, 4:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos	34 min
May 30, 5:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos	33 min
May 30, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	50 min
May 30, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Terrell	50 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.