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Tornado Warning 33, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 31, 2000, 6:46 PM CST for Glasscock County, Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 29 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 31, 2000, 6:46 PM CST (00:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2000, 7:15 PM CST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Glasscock County, TX, Midland County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:46 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.
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 31, 4:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 43 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
- 97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 930 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 79 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 478 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMAF 010047 TORMAF TXC173-329-010115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 646 PM CST FRI MAR 31 2000 THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN GLASSCOCK COUNTY IN TEXAS SOUTHEASTERN MIDLAND COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 715 PM CST * AT 641 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 15 MILES WEST OF BIGBY CORNER...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADIC STORM INCLUDE... ST. LAWRENCE AND BIGBY CORNER. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM YOU SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. MOVE INSIDE A STORM CELLAR...A BASEMENT...OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOUSE. LAT...LON 3177 10198 3167 10185 3169 10153 3190 10p165 RSB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 6:05 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Midland | 4 hr |
| Mar 31, 6:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 48 min |
| Mar 31, 7:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 63 min |
| Mar 31, 10:00 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Midland | 4 hr |
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.