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Tornado Warning 38, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 25, 2000Borden County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 25, 2000, 6:56 PM CDT for Borden County, Texas. It was in force for 49 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, 6:56 PM CDT (23:56 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2000, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Borden County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 126 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.

713 
WFUS54 KMAF 252357
TORMAF
TXC033-260045-

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

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BORDEN COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 655 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES NORTHEAST
  OF MESQUITE...MOVING EAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADIC STORM INCLUDE...    
  RURAL PORTIONS OF NORTHERN BORDEN COUNTY

LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM. THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT WAS
PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA.

LAT...LON 3295 10168 3285 10168 3279 10118 3296 10117

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, 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

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.