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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

October 24, 2000Ector County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 24, 2000, 5:21 PM CDT for Ector 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: Oct 24, 2000, 5:21 PM CDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired: Oct 24, 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 Ector County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 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
Oct 24, 5:44 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Notrees, TX

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
Oct 24, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 46 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: 559 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 696 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 190 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 229 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 3.3

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The text

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

373 
WFUS54 KMAF 242221
TORMAF
TXC135-242245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
521 PM CDT TUE OCT 24 2000

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 518 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTH OF
  NOTREES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADIC STORM INCLUDE...    
  NORTH COWDEN...NOTREES AND GOLDSMITH.

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.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS...FOR THE
LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.

LAT...LON 3197 10279 3173 10279 3199 10244 3208 10265

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 23, 9:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Terrell	4 hr
Oct 23, 9:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Reagan, Upton	4 hr
Oct 24, 7:31 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Gaines	3 hr
Oct 24, 3:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Andrews, Gaines	3 hr
Oct 24, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	60 min
Oct 24, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector, Winkler	53 min
Oct 24, 5:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Ector	45 min
Oct 24, 6:19 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Ector, Winkler	3 hr
Oct 24, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	45 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.