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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 27, 2002Mitchell County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2002, 3:07 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Texas. It was in force for 23 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: May 27, 2002, 3:07 PM CDT (20:07 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2002, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Mitchell County, TX

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 27, 1:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 122 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: 1553 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -136 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1124 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 209 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 181 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.7

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMAF 272007
TORMAF
TXC335-272030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
307 PM CDT MON MAY 27 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MITCHELL COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 330 PM CDT

* AT 307 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER SOUTH CENTRAL
  MITCHELL COUNTY...OR ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COLORADO CITY...
  MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

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

LAT...LON 3226 10117 3211 10103 3213 10068 3241 10068

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Winkler	42 min
May 26, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	47 min
May 26, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	42 min
May 26, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	27 min
May 26, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	46 min
May 27, 9:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	38 min
May 27, 11:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	66 min
May 27, 12:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	37 min
May 27, 1:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	46 min
May 27, 2:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell	39 min
May 27, 2:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	34 min
May 27, 3:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	40 min
May 27, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell	20 min
May 27, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	42 min
May 27, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Terrell	35 min
May 27, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	40 min
May 27, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson	50 min
May 27, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	27 min
May 27, 4:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Ector, Midland	40 min
May 27, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	59 min
May 27, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson	32 min
May 27, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	30 min
May 27, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	44 min
May 27, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	53 min
May 27, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	61 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.