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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

March 22, 2000Mitchell County, Scurry County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 22, 2000, 6:39 PM CST for Mitchell County, Scurry County, Texas. It was in force for 36 min. 2 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, 6:39 PM CST (00:39 UTC)
Expired: Mar 22, 2000, 7:15 PM CST
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Mitchell County, TX, Scurry County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:42 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, 6:57 PM CST	Hail 1	Dunn, TX	The Westbrook storm continued moving to the northeast into southern Scurry County.
Mar 22, 7:02 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Dunn, TX	After the Mitchell County tornado dissipated, the storm moved into southern Scurry County where a rear-flank downdraft took down utility lines.

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
Mar 22, 4:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 140 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMAF 230041
TORMAF
TXC335-415-230115-

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

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN MITCHELL COUNTY IN TEXAS
  SOUTHERN SCURRY COUNTY IN TEXAS
  THIS WARNING TAKES THE PLACE OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING    
  FOR MITCHELL COUNTY.

* UNTIL 715 PM CST

* AT 636 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  DUNN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADIC STORM INCLUDE...    
  CUTHBERT...UNION...IRA...DUNN...CHINA GROVE...HERMLEIGH AND SNYDER.

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING A TORNADO IN THE WESTBROOK 
AREA. 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
COV.ER 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 3252 10109 3239 10095 3260 10070 3287 10068
          3272 10104

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, 6:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Glasscock	46 min
Mar 22, 6:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell	44 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

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.