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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 22, 2000, 12:21 AM CST for Ward County, Winkler County, Texas. It was in force for 54 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
- Mar 22, 2000, 12:21 AM CST (06:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2000, 1:15 AM CST
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Ward County, TX, Winkler County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 12:50 AM CST | Tornado F0 | Wickett, TX | A supercell storm moving to the northeast spawned a weak tornado that moved straight north through the heart of Wickett. With the weak nature of the tornado and lack of targets outside of the city, the exact starting and ending points of the tornado could not |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 21, 11:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3806 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KMAF 220622
TORMAF
TXC475-495-220715-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1221 AM CST WED MAR 22 2000
THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WARD COUNTY IN TEXAS
WINKLER COUNTY IN TEXAS
* UNTIL 115 AM CST
* AT 1218 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF
PYOTE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADIC STORM INCLUDE...
WINK...WICKETT...PYOTE...MONAHANS AND KERMIT.
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 3153 10335 3140 10320 3140 10281 3178 10281
3195 10293 3182 10327The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 21, 7:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 51 min |
| Mar 21, 7:18 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Scurry | 42 min |
| Mar 21, 7:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 31 min |
| Mar 21, 11:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 67 min |
| Mar 22, 12:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ward, Winkler | 65 min |
| Mar 22, 12:38 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Andrews | 37 min |
| Mar 22, 12:46 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector | 44 min |
| Mar 22, 12:49 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 12:54 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Gaines | 36 min |
| Mar 22, 12:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 65 min |
| Mar 22, 1:09 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Winkler | 36 min |
| Mar 22, 1:20 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector | 55 min |
| Mar 22, 1:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 58 min |
| Mar 22, 1:56 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 2:08 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Andrews, Ector | 52 min |
| Mar 22, 2:40 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector | 3 hr |
| Mar 22, 2:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Ector, Martin, Midland | 63 min |
| Mar 22, 3:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 48 min |
| Mar 22, 4:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 45 min |
| Mar 22, 4:18 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Martin | 117 min |
| Mar 22, 4:23 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 4:30 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Gaines | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 4:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Dawson | 62 min |
| Mar 22, 5:33 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Dawson | 3 hr |
| Mar 22, 1:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 30 min |
| Mar 22, 2:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 45 min |
| Mar 22, 2:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 40 min |
| Mar 22, 2:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Upton | 31 min |
| Mar 22, 3:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Upton | 30 min |
| Mar 22, 3:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden | 29 min |
| Mar 22, 3:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin, Midland | 49 min |
| Mar 22, 3:53 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos, Upton | 3 hr |
| Mar 22, 3:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 37 min |
| Mar 22, 4:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Midland | 42 min |
| Mar 22, 4:22 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Midland | 3 hr |
| Mar 22, 4:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Upton | 46 min |
| Mar 22, 4:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 52 min |
| Mar 22, 4:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 43 min |
| Mar 22, 4:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 51 min |
| Mar 22, 5:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 44 min |
| Mar 22, 5:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Upton | 26 min |
| Mar 22, 5:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Pecos | 52 min |
| Mar 22, 5:34 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Crane, Glasscock, Midland, Pecos, Upton | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 5:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Howard | 33 min |
| Mar 22, 5:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Midland | 46 min |
| Mar 22, 5:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 37 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.