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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 23, 2000, 12:16 AM CST for Reagan County, Texas. It was in force for 44 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
- Mar 23, 2000, 12:16 AM CST (06:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 2000, 1:00 AM CST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Reagan County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 7:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Mar 23, 12:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 81 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 230617 TORMAF TXC383-230700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1216 AM CST THU MAR 23 2000 THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... REAGAN COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 100 AM CST * AT 1215 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF STILES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADIC STORM INCLUDE... NORTH REAGAN FIRE STATION AND STILES. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. MOTORISTS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD ABANDON VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER! TAKE COVER IN A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...TAKE COVER IN A DITCH OR CULVERT. PROTECT YOUR HEAD AND BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS! STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR COTHER MEDIA OUTLETS...FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3143 10177 3118 10159 3155 10128 3164 10153
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, 6:39 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, 12:50 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.