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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

March 22, 2000Upton County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 22, 2000, 4:29 PM CST for Upton County, Texas. It was in force for 46 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, 4:29 PM CST (22:29 UTC)
Expired: Mar 22, 2000, 5:15 PM CST
In force: 46 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), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:29 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, 4:30 PM CST	Hail 1	Ozona, 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 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 73 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMAF 222231
TORMAF
TXC461-222315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
429 PM CST WED MAR 22 2000

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  UPTON COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 515 PM CST

* AT 429 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER KING MOUNTAIN...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADIC STORM INCLUDE...    
  KING MOUNTAIN AND MCCAMEY.

LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

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 TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS...FOR THE
LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.

LAT...LON 3126 10231 3110 10221 3135 10189 3151 10208

The 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, 3:15 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Upton	30 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, 4:38 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.