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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 5, 2002, 6:09 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 51 min. 2 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 5, 2002, 6:09 PM CDT (23:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2002, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pecos County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 6:49 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Ft Stockton, TX | Reported on FM1776. |
| May 5, 7:03 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Ft Stockton, TX | Reported on highway 18. |
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 5, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 1652 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 740 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMAF 052309 TORMAF TXC371-060000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 610 PM CDT SUN MAY 5 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 608 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES WEST OF FORT STOCKTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... FORT STOCKTON AND BELDING. A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME-TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW. LAT...LON 3082 10350 3063 10302 3105 10265 3128 10307
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, 11:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Scurry | 38 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 |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.