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Tornado Warning 37, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 25, 2000Dawson County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 25, 2000, 5:58 PM CDT for Dawson County, Texas. It was in force for 32 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, 5:58 PM CDT (22:58 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 32 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), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:01 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
May 25, 5:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 109 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.

080 
WFUS54 KMAF 252259
TORMAF
TXC115-252330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
558 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 630 PM CDT

* AT 556 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER WELCH...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADIC STORM INCLUDE...    
  GRANDVIEW...PRIDE AND WELCH. THE TORNADIC PORTION OF THE STORM
  IS EXPECTED TO PASS NEAR WELCH.

LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO LIKELY WITH THIS
STORM.

LAT...LON 3295 10219 3286 10215 3290 10182 3295 10185

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, 5:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Dawson	24 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

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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.