Tornado Warning 22, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Issued

Sep 18, 1996, 12:25 AM CDT (05:25 UTC)

Expired

Sep 18, 1996, 1:15 AM CDT

In force

50 min

Issued by

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Area

Whole counties

County Gaines County, TX

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 180525
TORMAF
TXC165-180615-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1225 AM CDT WED SEP 18 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHWEST TEXAS

   ...NORTHWESTERN GAINES COUNTY
 
AT 1224 AM CDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND
DOPPLER RADAR 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF HOBBS OR 5 MILES SOUTH OF
HIGGINBOTHAM MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... HIGGINBOTHAM.

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.

$$

FAGEN/PENDERGRAST

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Sep 17, 9:05 PM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
905 PM CDT (805 PM MDT) TUE SEP 17 1996

PRESENTLY TRACKING TWO SEVERE STORMS IN CWA BOTH OF WHICH ARE LEFT SPLIT
STORMS WITH INFLOW GRADIENT AND MID-LEVEL OVERHANGS ON NORTH SIDE.  AS
LOW LEVEL JET INCREASES OVER NEXT HOUR...MAY SEE TEMPORARY DECREASE
IN STRENGTH AS RELATIVE INFLOW TRIES TO CHANGE TO A SOUTHEAST FLANK.

MATHEWS/FAGEN

In the hours before

NMZ027>029-TXZ045>048-050>052-057>063-067>070-074-075-079>082-180415-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
913 PM CDT (813 PM MDT) TUE SEP 17 1996

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM WEDNESDAY
MORNING FOR MUCH OF THE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN PERMIAN BASIN.

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 1033 INCLUDES THE COUNTIES OF
GAINES...DAWSON...BORDEN...SCURRY...ANDREWS...MARTIN...HOWARD...
WINKLER...ECTOR...MIDLAND AND GLASSCOCK.

SOME OF THE CITIES INCLUDED IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ARE
SEMINOLE...LAMESA...SNYDER ...ANDREWS...KERMIT...ODESSA...MIDLAND
AND BIG SPRING.

EARLIER...AT 759 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCED GOLFBALL SIZED
HAIL IN THE CITY OF KERMIT.  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS
CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO
THE WATCH AREA.  PERSONS IN THE ABOVE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT
FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

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