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Tornado Warning 45, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 24, 2000, 8:31 PM CDT for Martin County, Texas. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 24, 2000, 8:31 PM CDT (01:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2000, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Martin County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 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.
- 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
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector | 45 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.