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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 22, 1997, 8:41 PM CDT for Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 49 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
- Apr 22, 1997, 8:41 PM CDT (01:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 1997, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Midland County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:41 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 9:00 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Midland, 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 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 18 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1852 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 327 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
355 WFUS1 KMAF 230142 RRA TORMAF TXC329-230230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 841 PM CDT TUE APR 22 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS ...NORTHERN MIDLAND COUNTY AT 840 PM CDT...A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS IN THE VICINITY OF MIDLAND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... WARFIELD AND COTTON FLAT. 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. $$ TJT/MEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson, Gaines | 61 min |
| Apr 22, 7:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Gaines | 48 min |
| Apr 22, 7:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Andrews | 33 min |
| Apr 22, 8:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Andrews, Martin | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.