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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 10, 2002, 8:46 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 29 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 10, 2002, 8:46 PM CDT (01:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2002, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 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), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:47 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 10, 8:49 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Ft Stockton, TX | A brief tornado was reported by a television meteorologist. |
| May 10, 9:10 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Ft Stockton, TX | Trained spotters reported golfball size hail breaking car and residential windows 8 to 10 miles east of Fort Stockton near Interstate 10. |
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 10, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 1926 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1619 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMAF 110146 TORMAF TXC371-110215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 845 PM CDT FRI MAY 10 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 845 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT STOCKTON...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. STORM SPOTTERS ARE REPORTING A FUNNEL CLOUD WITH THIS STORM JUST SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 10. A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME-TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. IN ADDITION...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL IS FALLING OVER INTERSTATE 10 EAST OF FORT STOCKTON. LAT...LON 3109 10293 3051 10272 3074 10208 3118 10246
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 59 min |
| May 10, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 61 min |
| May 10, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 56 min |
| May 10, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 44 min |
| May 10, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.