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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Feb 22, 2000, 1:20 PM CST for Glasscock County, Reagan County, Texas. It was in force for 25 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 22, 2000, 1:20 PM CST (19:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2000, 1:45 PM CST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Glasscock County, TX, Reagan County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 1:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 221928 TORMAF TXC173-383-221945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 120 PM CST TUE FEB 22 2000 THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN GLASSCOCK COUNTY IN TEXAS NORTHERN REAGAN COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 145 PM CST * AT 119 PM CST...A STORM SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO OVER NORTHERN REAGAN COUNTY...NEAR THE NORTH REAGAN FIRE STATION. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADIC STORM INCLUDE... NORTH REAGAN FIRE STATION AND ST. LAWRENCE. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS...FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3164 10177 3140 10165 3141 10128 3184 10128 DJK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 12:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Upton | 45 min |
| Feb 22, 1:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan, Upton | 42 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.