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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 27, 2002Ector County, Midland County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2002, 4:50 PM CDT for Ector County, Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 40 min. 5 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 27, 2002, 4:50 PM CDT (21:50 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2002, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Ector County, TX, Midland County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:52 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 27, 4:55 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Gardendale, TX	Nickel hail reported covering the ground near the intersection of the Highway 158 and Farm to Market Road 1788 in both Ector and Midland Counties.
May 27, 4:55 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Midland, TX	Nickel size hail reported covering the ground near the intersection of the Highway 158 and Farm to Market Road 1788 in both Ector and Midland Counties.
May 27, 5:00 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Midland, TX	Golfball hail was reported at the intersection of West County Road 60 and Highway 158.
May 27, 5:10 PM CDT	Hail 1	Midland, TX	Pea to quarter size hail was reported at the intersection of Andrews Highway and Midland Drive in the city of Midland.
May 27, 5:20 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Greenwood, TX	Trained spotters, local television meteorologists, and members of the general public reported a brief tornado near exit 144 of Interstate 20.

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

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 10 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 272150
TORMAF
TXC135-329-272230-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 449 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES EAST OF
  GARDENDALE...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTH OF ODESSA...MOVING EAST AT 20
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
  MIDLAND AND GARDENDALE

A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED SPOTTERS INDICATED A TORNADO
ON THE GROUND NEAR HIGHWAY 1788 IN NORTHEASTERN ECTOR
COUNTY.  TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING NOW.  MOBILE 
HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE NOT SAFE.

LAT...LON 3208 10245 3195 10232 3196 10192 3209 10201

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, 3:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Mitchell	23 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, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.