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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

September 13, 2002Ector County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 13, 2002, 6:43 PM CDT for Ector 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 as issued.

The facts

Issued
Sep 13, 2002, 6:43 PM CDT (23:43 UTC)
Expired
Sep 13, 2002, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ector County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 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 nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 17 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2002-09-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 75 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2002-09-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
75 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1058 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

331 
WFUS54 KMAF 132343
TORMAF
TXC135-140015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
643 PM CDT FRI SEP 13 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN ECTOR COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 643 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED 
  A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF   
  ODESSA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
  ODESSA

A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME-TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES
AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3200 10243 3185 10238 3186 10230 3208 10230
          3206 10245

The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 13, 5:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLoving59 min
Sep 13, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos95 min
Sep 13, 5:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFWard59 min
Sep 13, 5:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor72 min
Sep 13, 5:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReeves101 min
Sep 13, 6:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFWinkler84 min
Sep 13, 6:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMidland72 min
Sep 13, 6:43 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFEctor32 min
Sep 13, 6:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews55 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.