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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

February 25, 2000Glasscock County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Feb 25, 2000, 12:33 AM CST for Glasscock County, Texas. It was in force for 42 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 25, 2000, 12:33 AM CST (06:33 UTC)
Expired: Feb 25, 2000, 1:15 AM CST
In force: 42 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), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:33 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.

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 25, 12:00 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 66 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: 1080 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -114 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1676 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 2.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 250634
TORMAF
TXC173-250715-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1233 AM CST FRI FEB 25 2000

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  GLASSCOCK COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 115 AM CST

* AT 1233 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES NORTH OF ST.
  LAWRENCE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADIC STORM INCLUDE...    
  ST. LAWRENCE AND GARDEN CITY.

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 xAWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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

LAT...LON 3179 10172 3166 10156 3186 10127 3209 10128
          3210 10146

The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 24, 11:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Howard	51 min
Feb 24, 11:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Midland	56 min
Feb 25, 12:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	60 min
Feb 25, 12:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	59 min
Feb 25, 12:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	61 min
Feb 25, 12:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	55 min
Feb 25, 12:51 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell	54 min
Feb 25, 12:59 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	61 min
Feb 25, 1:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	60 min
Feb 25, 1:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	60 min
Feb 25, 1:51 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Howard, Mitchell, Scurry	54 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.