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Tornado Warning 40, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

October 24, 2000Ector County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 24, 2000, 5:45 PM CDT for Ector County, Texas. It was in force for 45 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, 5:45 PM CDT (22:45 UTC)
Expired: Oct 24, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 45 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), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:48 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, 6:10 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Goldsmith, 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 43 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.

000 
WFUS54 KMAF 242246
TORMAF

TXC135-242330-

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

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 538 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. 

THE AREA OF THIS STORM THAT APPEARS TORNADIC WILL PROBABLY PASS 
CLOSEST TO GOLDSMITH. PORTIONS OF THIS STORM MAY ALSO PASS ACROSS
THE NORTH SIDE OF ODESSA...ALTHOUGH IT APPEARS THAT THE TORNADIC
PORTION OF THE STORM WILL MOVE TO THE NORTH OF THE CITY.

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

LAT...LON 3194 10279 3173 10278 3199 10232 3207 10260

DJK

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, 5:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Ector	24 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.