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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 29, 1996Martin County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 29, 1996, 6:37 PM CDT for Martin County, Texas. It was in force for 63 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 29, 1996, 6:37 PM CDT (23:37 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 1996, 7:40 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Martin County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 29, 7:32 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Tarzan, 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 46 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: 2227 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 986 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 144 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 292337
TORMAF
TXC317-300040-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
637 PM CDT WED MAY 29 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 740 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHWEST TEXAS

   ...SOUTHEASTERN MARTIN COUNTY
 
AT 636 PM CDT...A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND
DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF STANTON
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

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

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/FAGEN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	61 min
May 29, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	46 min
May 29, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	58 min
May 29, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	65 min
May 29, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	34 min
May 29, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	65 min
May 29, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Upton	62 min
May 29, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	62 min
May 29, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	61 min
May 29, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	62 min
May 29, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	46 min
May 29, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	65 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.