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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 31, 2000, 7:12 PM CST for Glasscock County, Texas. It was in force for 63 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, 7:12 PM CST (01:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2000, 8:15 PM CST
- In force
- 63 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), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:12 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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 60 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 010114
TORMAF
TXC173-010215-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
712 PM CST FRI MAR 31 2000
THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
GLASSCOCK COUNTY IN TEXAS
* UNTIL 815 PM CST
* AT 712 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF GARDEN
CITY...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADIC STORM INCLUDE...
GARDEN CITY.
TAKE COVER FROM THIS STORM NOW! 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 AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
LAT...LON 3186 10179 3173 10163 3171 10138 3193 10127
3206 10139 3208 10172The 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, 6:46 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Midland | 29 min |
| Mar 31, 10:00 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Midland | 4 hr |
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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.