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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

March 4, 2004Glasscock County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 4, 2004, 9:16 AM CST for Glasscock County, Texas. It was in force for 44 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: Mar 4, 2004, 9:16 AM CST (15:16 UTC)
Expired: Mar 4, 2004, 10:00 AM CST
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Glasscock 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
Mar 4, 4:25 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 56 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: 622 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -56 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 477 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.9

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The text

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

229 
WFUS54 KMAF 041516
TORMAF
TXC173-041600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
915 AM CST THU MAR 4 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1000 AM CST

* AT 913 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTH OF BIGBY
  CORNER...OR ABOUT 23 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GARDEN CITY...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
  GARDEN CITY...ST. LAWRENCE AND BIGBY CORNER

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

LAT...LON 3177 10177 3167 10176 3167 10137 3198 10132
          3198 10177

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 3, 10:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	45 min
Mar 4, 1:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	32 min
Mar 4, 2:18 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	27 min
Mar 4, 4:38 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	52 min
Mar 4, 4:44 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson	46 min
Mar 4, 4:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson	40 min
Mar 4, 4:56 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	49 min
Mar 4, 5:40 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	35 min
Mar 4, 6:08 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	32 min
Mar 4, 6:12 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	28 min
Mar 4, 6:31 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	44 min
Mar 4, 6:34 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	41 min
Mar 4, 6:43 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	32 min
Mar 4, 6:55 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	35 min
Mar 4, 7:24 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	36 min
Mar 4, 7:33 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell, Scurry	57 min
Mar 4, 7:53 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	52 min
Mar 4, 7:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	47 min
Mar 4, 8:23 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard, Martin	52 min
Mar 4, 8:43 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	47 min
Mar 4, 8:53 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	67 min
Mar 4, 9:12 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden	48 min
Mar 4, 9:18 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Terrell	27 min
Mar 4, 9:41 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden	19 min
Mar 4, 9:52 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	38 min
Mar 4, 10:18 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell	57 min
Mar 4, 10:28 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Howard	3 hr
Mar 4, 10:38 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Scurry	3 hr
Mar 4, 10:41 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	49 min

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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.