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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 28, 1997, 8:09 PM CDT for Gaines County, Texas. It was in force for 51 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, 8:09 PM CDT (01:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1997, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gaines County, TX
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 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 97 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 884 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1726 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 319 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
804 WFUS1 KMAF 290110 RRA TORMAF TXC165-290200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 809 PM CDT WED MAY 28 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWESTERN TEXAS ...SOUTHWESTERN GAINES COUNTY AT 808 PM CDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS IN THE VICINITY OF HOBBS MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING GOLFBALL HAIL. THE TORNADO IS CURRENTLY EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER RURAL 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. 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, 7:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Winkler | 47 min |
| May 28, 7:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector | 47 min |
| May 28, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 32 min |
| May 28, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Winkler | 46 min |
| May 28, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 50 min |
| May 28, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Ward | 47 min |
| May 28, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 65 min |
| May 28, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 62 min |
| May 28, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane | 49 min |
| May 29, 2:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis | 46 min |
| May 29, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 46 min |
| May 29, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 47 min |
| May 29, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 65 min |
| May 29, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 61 min |
| May 29, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Loving | 64 min |
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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.