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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 25, 2000Gaines County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 25, 2000, 5:21 PM CDT for Gaines County, Texas. It was in force for 24 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
May 25, 2000, 5:21 PM CDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 2000, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Gaines County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 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 nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 101 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 86 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 179 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
86 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-494 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2989 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
179 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

441 
WFUS54 KMAF 252222
TORMAF
TXC165-252245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
521 PM CDT THU MAY 25 2000

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN GAINES COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 518 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR CEDAR LAKE...
  MOVING TO THE EAST AND NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADIC STORM INCLUDE...    
  CEDAR LAKE AND ASHMORE. 

LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM. THIS WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING.

LAT...LON 3289 10239 3278 10239 3277 10220 3295 10220

DJK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 4:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines48 min
May 25, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFDawson47 min
May 25, 5:36 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFDawson24 min
May 25, 5:58 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFDawson32 min
May 25, 6:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFDawson3 hr
May 25, 6:28 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFReagan3 hr
May 25, 6:36 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFPecos, Terrell3 hr
May 25, 6:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBorden, Dawson50 min
May 25, 6:56 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFBorden49 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.