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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

February 22, 2000Upton County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Feb 22, 2000, 12:10 PM CST for Upton County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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: Feb 22, 2000, 12:10 PM CST (18:10 UTC)
Expired: Feb 22, 2000, 12:55 PM CST
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Upton County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:12 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
Feb 22, 12:55 PM CST	Hail 1	Rankin, 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 66 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: 350 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -278 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1040 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 255 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 269 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 221818
TORMAF
TXC461-221855-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1210 PM CST TUE FEB 22 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL AND NORTHERN UPTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS

* UNTIL 1255 PM CST

* AT 1210 PM CST... MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A THUNDERSTORM
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CRANE
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE... KING MOUNTAIN
  AND THE INTERSECTION OF STATE HIGHWAY 329 AND FM 1492.

IF YOU ARE IN A CAR...GO IN A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING! AS A LAST
RESORT LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AND BCOVER YOUR HEAD.

BF

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 22, 1:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan, Upton	42 min
Feb 22, 1:20 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Reagan	25 min
Feb 22, 2:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell	38 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.