Tornado Warning 23, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Issued

Nov 6, 1996, 7:15 PM CST (01:15 UTC)

Expired

Nov 6, 1996, 8:05 PM CST

In force

50 min

Issued by

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Area

Whole counties

County Reagan County, TX

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 070116
TORMAF
TXC383-070205-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
715 PM CST WED NOV 6 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 805 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS

   ...REAGAN COUNTY
 
AT 713 PM CST...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC 10
MILES NORTH OF BIG LAKE OR 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF STILES MOVING EAST
AT 30 MPH.

THE TORNADO IS CURRENTLY EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER RURAL AREAS.

ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF TEXON MOVING
EAST AT 25 MPH.  THIS STORM WILL MOVE NEAR THE TEXON...BEST...AND
BIG LAKE AREAS.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO
BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SAFETY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A
CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO
COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.

$$

MURDOCH/MEAD

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Nov 6, 1:52 PM CST, 5 hours 23 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
151 PM CST WED NOV 6 1996

19Z LATEST SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS QUASI/STATIONARY COLD FRONT
EXTENDING FROM SOUTH OF CDS... TO SOUTH OF LBB... TO SOUTH HOBBS AND
TO NEAR CNM.  DEWPOINTS REMAIN IN THE LOWER TO MID 50S OVER THE
PERMIAN BASIN WITH 60S FARTHER SOUTH.  LATEST WV IMAGERY SHOWS S/W
JUST SOUTH OF THE BORDER OF AZ/NM IN NORTHERN MEXICO CONTINUING TO
MOVE EASTWARD WITH NICE DRY SLOT SHAPING UP OUT AHEAD OF IT.
VISIBLE SHOWING LAYER OF AC/ACCAS OVER PORTION OF TRANS/PECOS
NORTHEASTWARD INTO SOUTH PLAINS.

BELIEVE FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO WAIT FOR AFOREMENTIONED S/W BEFORE
MOVING THROUGH FA.  WITH S/W PROGGED TO MOVE OVER AREA LATER THIS
EVENING LOTS OF UPWARD MOTION EXISTS OVER AREA.  THEREFORE... BELIEVE
POPS WARRANTED FROM PERMIAN BASIN SOUTHWARD WITH GREATEST CHANCES
EAST AND SOUTH OF MAF.  ONLY LIMITING FACTOR WILL BE AVAILABLE
MOISTURE WHICH WILL BE MORE DOMINANT OVER EASTERN AND SOUTHERN
PORTIONS OF FA. REAL FRONT SHOULD PUSH THROUGH MAF BETWEEN 10 PM AND
MIDNIGHT WITH PREFRONTAL PUSHING THROUGH AT THIS TIME.

WILL GO A MIX OF AVN AND NGM THIS TIME AROUND BUT TENDING TOWARDS
COOLER AVN TEMPERATURES AS BELIEVEj GOOD CAA WILL BE ASSOCIATED WITH
THIS FRONT AS SEEN BY TEMPERATURES OVER PANHANDLE WITH 40S AND 50S
PREDOMINANT.

CNM  39/5
MAF  39/20
MRF  35/0
P07  48/30

EARLE

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