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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 12, 2004Pecos County, Terrell County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2004, 5:15 PM CDT for Pecos County, Terrell County, Texas. It was in force for 60 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 12, 2004, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2004, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Pecos County, TX, Terrell County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 168 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:16 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 12, 3:25 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 1156 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -259 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1627 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 152 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMAF 122215
TORMAF
TXC371-443-122315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
514 PM CDT SAT JUN 12 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH CENTRAL PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
  WEST CENTRAL TERRELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 511 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 13 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF LONGFELLOW...OR 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF SANDERSON...
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  LONGFELLOW...
  SANDERSON...

A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED... TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING NOW. 
MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE NOT SAFE.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.

LAT...LON 3079 10280 3037 10301 2993 10239 3023 10225
      3074 10225

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell	56 min
Jun 11, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell	62 min
Jun 11, 9:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell	27 min
Jun 12, 2:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster, Pecos	62 min
Jun 12, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	56 min
Jun 12, 4:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	52 min
Jun 12, 4:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos	64 min
Jun 12, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ward	50 min
Jun 12, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	58 min
Jun 12, 5:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Brewster	56 min
Jun 12, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	55 min
Jun 12, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	58 min
Jun 12, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson	38 min
Jun 12, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	51 min
Jun 12, 6:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Brewster, Terrell	59 min
Jun 12, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden	49 min
Jun 12, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	60 min
Jun 12, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	42 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.