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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 22, 2000, 3:15 PM CST for Upton County, Texas. It was in force for 30 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 22, 2000, 3:15 PM CST (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2000, 3:45 PM CST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Upton County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 3:40 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Rankin, TX | The very next storm to move north of Rankin produced another tornado in the same area. No damage path was found. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 1:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 542 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 989 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KMAF 222122
TORMAF
TXC461-222145-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
315 PM CST WED MAR 22 2000
THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
UPTON COUNTY IN TEXAS
THIS WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS TORNADO WARNING FOR UPTON COUNTY.
* UNTIL 345 PM CST
* AT 313 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
A POSSIBLE TORNADO 7 MILES EAST OF MCCAMEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
35 MPH. ANOTHER TORNADIC STORM IS LOCATED NORTH OF RANKIN MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM NORTH OF RANKIN HAS HAD A
CONFIRMED TORNADO REPORTED WITH IT 5 MILES NORTH OF RANKIN.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS FIRST TORNADIC STORM
INCLUDE...HIGHWAY 67 EAST OF MCCAMEY. MIDKIFF IS IN THE PATH OF
THE NORTHERN STORM.
THIS STORM HAS HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. RADAR IS
PRESENTLY INDICATING ANOTHER POSSIBLE TORNADO WITH THIS STORM. IT IS
ADVISABLE TO MOVE TO SHELTER NOW...BEFORE LIFE-THREATENING WEATHER
REACHES YOUR AREA.
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
STAY 2TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS...FOR THE
LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.
LAT...LON 3114 10226 3110 10207 3111 10178 3164 10179
3163 10209The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 21, 7:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 51 min |
| Mar 21, 7:18 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Scurry | 42 min |
| Mar 21, 7:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 31 min |
| Mar 21, 11:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 67 min |
| Mar 22, 12:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ward, Winkler | 65 min |
| Mar 22, 12:21 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ward, Winkler | 54 min |
| Mar 22, 12:38 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Andrews | 37 min |
| Mar 22, 12:46 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector | 44 min |
| Mar 22, 12:49 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 12:54 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Gaines | 36 min |
| Mar 22, 12:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 65 min |
| Mar 22, 1:09 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Winkler | 36 min |
| Mar 22, 1:20 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector | 55 min |
| Mar 22, 1:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 58 min |
| Mar 22, 1:56 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 2:08 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Andrews, Ector | 52 min |
| Mar 22, 2:40 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector | 3 hr |
| Mar 22, 2:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Ector, Martin, Midland | 63 min |
| Mar 22, 3:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 48 min |
| Mar 22, 4:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 45 min |
| Mar 22, 4:18 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Martin | 117 min |
| Mar 22, 4:23 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 4:30 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Gaines | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 4:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Dawson | 62 min |
| Mar 22, 5:33 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Dawson | 3 hr |
| Mar 22, 1:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 30 min |
| Mar 22, 2:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 45 min |
| Mar 22, 2:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 40 min |
| Mar 22, 2:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Upton | 31 min |
| Mar 22, 3:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden | 29 min |
| Mar 22, 3:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin, Midland | 49 min |
| Mar 22, 3:53 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos, Upton | 3 hr |
| Mar 22, 3:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 37 min |
| Mar 22, 4:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Midland | 42 min |
| Mar 22, 4:22 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Midland | 3 hr |
| Mar 22, 4:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Upton | 46 min |
| Mar 22, 4:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 52 min |
| Mar 22, 4:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 43 min |
| Mar 22, 4:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 51 min |
| Mar 22, 5:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 44 min |
| Mar 22, 5:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Upton | 26 min |
| Mar 22, 5:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Pecos | 52 min |
| Mar 22, 5:34 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Crane, Glasscock, Midland, Pecos, Upton | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 5:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Howard | 33 min |
| Mar 22, 5:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Midland | 46 min |
| Mar 22, 5:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 37 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.