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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 28, 1997Ector County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 28, 1997, 6:38 PM CDT for Ector County, Texas. It was in force for 47 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 28, 1997, 6:38 PM CDT (23:38 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 1997, 7:25 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Ector County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 28, 7:35 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Goldsmith, 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 34 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 282338 RRA
TORMAF
TXC135-290025-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 725 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS

   ...NORTHERN ECTOR COUNTY
 
AT 636 PM CDT...A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND
DOPPLER RADAR 22 MILES NORTHWEST OF ODESSA OR 8 MILES NORTH OF
GOLDSMITH MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...GOLDSMITH WHICH
SHOULD BE AFFECTED BY 710 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/TJT

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, 6:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Andrews	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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.