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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 2, 2000, 2:13 AM CST 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
- Mar 2, 2000, 2:13 AM CST (08:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2000, 2:45 AM CST
- 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 Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 2:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 90 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 784 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1717 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 020816 TORMAF TXC115-020845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 213 AM CST THU MAR 2 2000 THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL DAWSON COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 245 AM CST * AT 210 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES WEST OF LAMESA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADIC STORM INCLUDE... MIDWAY...UNION...FRIENDSHIP...KEY...ARVANA...LAMESA. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. NIGHTTIME TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS! TAKE COVER NOW! IF YOU WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE! SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET...OR BASEMENT...OR STORM SHELTER. USE BLA&NKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3277 10218 3258 10208 3271 10174 3291 10190 RSB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 12:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 63 min |
| Mar 2, 1:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 49 min |
| Mar 2, 1:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 36 min |
| Mar 2, 1:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson, Gaines | 24 min |
| Mar 2, 2:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 21 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.