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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 4, 2002Scurry County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 4, 2002, 11:07 PM CDT for Scurry County, Texas. It was in force for 38 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 4, 2002, 11:07 PM CDT (04:07 UTC)
Expired: May 4, 2002, 11:45 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Scurry County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 4, 11:15 PM CDT	Hail 1	Ira, TX	Multiple reports including on Highway 1606.
May 4, 11:15 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Ira, TX	Road signs and four power poles were blown down when a tornado crossed Highway 350.
May 4, 11:45 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Dunn, 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
May 4, 10:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 144 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: 806 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2597 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.4

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMAF 050407
TORMAF
TXC415-050445-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1106 PM CDT SAT MAY 4 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN SCURRY COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 1145 PM CDT

* AT 1106 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF IRA...
  OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SNYDER...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
  KNAPP...IRA...DUNN...ALONG WITH HIGHWAYS 208 AND 350.

TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU
SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO-IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW

LAT...LON 3253 10067 3253 10116 3263 10117 3276 10067

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 4, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	43 min
May 4, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	39 min
May 4, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	48 min
May 4, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	43 min
May 4, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden	47 min
May 4, 9:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Scurry	31 min
May 4, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	45 min
May 4, 10:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Borden	29 min
May 4, 10:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden	47 min
May 4, 10:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	58 min
May 4, 11:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	27 min
May 4, 11:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Mitchell, Scurry	32 min
May 5, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	58 min
May 5, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	48 min
May 5, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	64 min
May 5, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	31 min
May 5, 6:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Pecos	3 hr
May 5, 6:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos	51 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.