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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2004, 7:10 PM CDT for Midland County, Upton County, Texas. It was in force for 50 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
- Jun 5, 2004, 7:10 PM CDT (00:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2004, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Midland County, TX, Upton County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:10 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 43 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
- 485 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3647 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
334 WFUS54 KMAF 060010 TORMAF TXC329-461-060100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 709 PM CDT SAT JUN 5 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN MIDLAND COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS NORTHEASTERN UPTON COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 708 PM CDT...A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED A LANDSPOUT 2 MILES NORTH OF MIDKIFF...OR 26 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MIDLAND...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MIDKIFF... IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE... SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT... SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT... DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220. LAT...LON 3177 10179 3180 10200 3152 10205 3148 10181 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Presidio | 55 min |
| Jun 5, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 51 min |
| Jun 5, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 65 min |
| Jun 5, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves, Ward | 43 min |
| Jun 5, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves, Ward | 33 min |
| Jun 5, 9:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Reeves | 43 min |
| Jun 5, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ward | 40 min |
| Jun 5, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Winkler | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 9:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Loving, Reeves, Ward, Winkler | 3 hr |
| Jun 5, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 37 min |
| Jun 5, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 41 min |
| Jun 5, 10:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos | 3 hr |
| Jun 5, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 11:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 37 min |
| Jun 5, 11:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 49 min |
| Jun 6, 12:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 52 min |
| Jun 6, 12:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Scurry | 48 min |
| Jun 6, 1:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 46 min |
| Jun 6, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.