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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 28, 1997Andrews County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 28, 1997, 6:08 PM CDT for Andrews County, Texas. It was in force for 47 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 28, 1997, 6:08 PM CDT (23:08 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 1997, 6:55 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Andrews County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 28, 5:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 57 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: 927 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 734 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.9

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The text

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

154 
WFUS1 KMAF 282312
TORMAF
TXC003-282355-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
608 PM CDT WED MAY 28 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 655 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS

   ...ANDREWS COUNTY

AT 606 PM CDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND DOPPLER
RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS 17 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HOBBS OR 13 MILES
NORTHWEST OF FRANKEL CITY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

THE TORNADO IS CURRENTLY EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER RURAL AREAS...
CROSSING HIGHWAY 176 ABOUT 8MILES WEST OF FRANKEL CITY BY 630 PM.

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.



TAH/RRF

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Jeff Davis	45 min
May 28, 3:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Brewster, Jeff Davis	62 min
May 28, 3:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster, Jeff Davis	62 min
May 28, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	65 min
May 28, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	64 min
May 28, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	45 min
May 28, 6:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Ector	47 min
May 28, 6:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Andrews	48 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.