Tornado Warning 8, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Issued

May 29, 1996, 7:38 PM CDT (00:38 UTC)

Expired

May 29, 1996, 8:25 PM CDT

In force

47 min

Issued by

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Area

Whole counties

County Glasscock County, TX

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:55 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.

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 300039
TORMAF
TXC173-300125-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 825 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS

   ...SOUTHERN GLASSCOCK COUNTY
 
AT 737 PM CDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND DOPPLER
RADAR 32 MILES SOUTHEAST OF STANTON OR IN THE VICINITY OF SAINT
LAWRENCE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... SAINT LAWRENCE.

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
AVA<ILABLE. 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/BOYD

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at May 29, 2:14 PM CDT, 5 hours 24 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
145 PM CDT (1245 PM MDT) WED MAY 29 1996

FRONTAL BOUNDARY APPEARS TO BE OSCILLATING IN THE VICINITY OF MAF-INK
SO FAR TOADY.  18Z RUC FINALLY SHOWS PRESSURE RISES SOUTH OF THE
FRONT EXCEEDING PRESSURE RISES NORTH OF THE FRONT.  18Z RUC ALSO0
SHOWS MOISTURE CONVERGENCE AND THETA-E ADVECTION ARE FOCUSED NEAR
JAL NEW MEXICO WHERE FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND DRY LINE INTERSECT.

WITH SURFACE DEW POINT IN THE 60S INCHING INTO SE NM...LI DOWN TO
-8...CAP STRENGTH DOWN TO +2C AND PUFFY CU OUTSIDE...EXPECT FRONTAL
BOUNDARY AND EASTERN SLOPES OF DAVIS MOUNTAINS TO BE FOCUS FOR
INITIATION OF CONVECTION LATER THIS AFTERNOON.  THIS W(ILL BE UPDATED
VIA THE SHORT TERM FORECASTS AS NEEDED.

WITH ONSET OF LOW LEVEL JET AND 850MB THETA-E RIDGE ACROSS CWA
WILL KEEP POPS UP FOR THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT.
CNM  64 10
MAF  68 40
MRF  58 20
P07  74 20

FAGEN

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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.