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Tornado Warning 44, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 24, 2000, 8:30 PM CDT for Ector County, Texas. It was in force for 45 min. 2 reports 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, 8:30 PM CDT (01:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2000, 9:15 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), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:32 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, 8:39 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Odessa, TX | |
| Oct 24, 9:14 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Odessa, 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 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 26 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
- 1373 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 873 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMAF 250133 TORMAF TXC135-250215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 830 PM CDT TUE OCT 24 2000 THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN ECTOR COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 827 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER WEST ODESSA... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADIC STORM INCLUDE... WEST ODESSA AND ODESSA. THIS STORM IS HEADING TO THE NORTHEAST ALONG INTERSTATE 20. WEATHER SPOTTERS HAVE REPORTED LARGE HAIL WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM AND STRONG ROTATION IS BEING INDICATED ON DOPPLER RADAR. NO TORNADOES HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM YET...BUT THE STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING ONE WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. LAT...LON 3184 10258 3174 10250 3176 10230 3205 10230 z DJK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector | 37 min |
| Oct 24, 7:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector | 2 hr |
| Oct 24, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector | 45 min |
| Oct 24, 7:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Midland | 36 min |
| Oct 24, 8:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Martin | 29 min |
| Oct 24, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 22 min |
| Oct 24, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 42 min |
| Oct 24, 9:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Midland | 3 hr |
| Oct 24, 9:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector | 3 hr |
| Oct 24, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 34 min |
| Oct 24, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Winkler | 32 min |
| Oct 24, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 43 min |
| Oct 24, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 44 min |
| Oct 24, 11:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews | 4 hr |
| Oct 24, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 48 min |
| Oct 25, 3:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Dawson | 4 hr |
| Oct 25, 5:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 25 min |
| Oct 25, 6:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Borden, Dawson | 4 hr |
| Oct 25, 11:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Borden, Dawson | 3 hr |
| Oct 25, 1:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Borden, Dawson | 3 hr |
| Oct 25, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 50 min |
| Oct 25, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 45 min |
| Oct 25, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 39 min |
| Oct 25, 5:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Dawson | 6 hr |
| Oct 25, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 41 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.