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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 25, 2000Dawson County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 25, 2000, 5:36 PM CDT for Dawson County, Texas. It was in force for 24 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 25, 2000, 5:36 PM CDT (22:36 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Dawson County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:36 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 25, 5:48 PM CDT	Hail 2	Welch, TX	Second cell developed on southern flank of cell #1 and continued northeast into southern Lynn Co.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 25, 5:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 107 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: 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.

786 
WFUS54 KMAF 252237
TORMAF
TXC115-252300-

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

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN DAWSON COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 533 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  WELCH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADIC STORM INCLUDE...    
  PRIDE AND WELCH.

PERSONS IN WELCH SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY 

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

LAT...LON 3294 10219 3282 10220 3287 10202 3296 10201

DJK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	48 min
May 25, 5:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Gaines	24 min
May 25, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson	47 min
May 25, 5:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Dawson	32 min
May 25, 6:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Dawson	3 hr
May 25, 6:28 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Reagan	3 hr
May 25, 6:36 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	3 hr
May 25, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Dawson	50 min
May 25, 6:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Borden	49 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.