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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2004, 9:17 PM CDT for Reeves County, Texas. It was in force for 43 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, 9:17 PM CDT (02:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2004, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Reeves County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:19 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 124 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.
926 WFUS54 KMAF 060217 TORMAF TXC389-060245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 916 PM CDT SAT JUN 5 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL REEVES COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT * AT 911 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF TOYAH LAKE...OR 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PECOS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... EASTERN REEVES COUNTY... A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME... TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. THE SAFEST PLACES TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT OR AN UNDERGROUND SHELTER. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE... SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STRONG BUILDING. MOVE INTO AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR CLOSET AWAY FROM WINDOWS. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES... EVACUATE THEM AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE... LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER 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 3146 10334 3131 10346 3117 10323 3131 10309 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Midland, Upton | 50 min |
| 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, 9:35 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.