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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 22, 2000, 6:29 PM CST for Glasscock County, Texas. It was in force for 46 min. 3 reports 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, 6:29 PM CST (00:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2000, 7:15 PM CST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Glasscock County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 6:30 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Garden City, TX | Hail reported on west side of town. |
| Mar 22, 6:45 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Garden City, TX | The tornado crossed US 87 two miles west of the Glasscock/Sterling county line. This storm continued through the northwest corner of Sterling County and into southwest Mitchell County where another tornado formed. |
| Mar 22, 6:45 PM CST | Hail 2 | Garden City, TX | Hail broke car windows. |
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 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -178 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1659 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMAF 230032 TORMAF TXC173-230115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 629 PM CST WED MAR 22 2000 THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN GLASSCOCK COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 715 PM CST * AT 626 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR GARDEN CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADIC STORM INCLUDE... LEES AND GARDEN CITY. THIS STORM PRODUCED GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL IN GARDEN CITY AT 630 PM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY! IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. LAT...LON 3180 10174 3178 10132 3208 10127 3208 10167 RSB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 6:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 44 min |
| Mar 22, 6:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 24 min |
| Mar 22, 6:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Upton | 51 min |
| Mar 22, 6:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 44 min |
| Mar 22, 6:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Mitchell, Scurry | 36 min |
| Mar 22, 6:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane | 56 min |
| Mar 22, 6:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 46 min |
| Mar 22, 7:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Howard, Mitchell | 43 min |
| Mar 22, 7:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 44 min |
| Mar 22, 7:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 57 min |
| Mar 22, 7:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 61 min |
| Mar 22, 7:40 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Borden, Howard, Martin, Mitchell, Scurry | 3 hr |
| Mar 22, 7:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 49 min |
| Mar 22, 7:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 49 min |
| Mar 22, 7:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane | 50 min |
| Mar 22, 8:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 30 min |
| Mar 22, 8:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 67 min |
| Mar 22, 8:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 59 min |
| Mar 22, 8:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 67 min |
| Mar 22, 9:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 45 min |
| Mar 22, 9:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 42 min |
| Mar 22, 9:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 46 min |
| Mar 22, 10:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland, Upton | 48 min |
| Mar 22, 10:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Reagan | 43 min |
| Mar 22, 10:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Howard | 49 min |
| Mar 22, 10:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 48 min |
| Mar 22, 11:00 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Borden, Crane, Glasscock, Howard, Midland, Mitchell and 4 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 22, 11:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 50 min |
| Mar 22, 11:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Howard | 47 min |
| Mar 23, 12:16 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Reagan | 44 min |
| Mar 23, 12:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 40 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.