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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2004, 5:19 PM CDT for Brewster County, Texas. It was in force for 56 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, 5:19 PM CDT (22:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2004, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Brewster County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 211 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 211 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KMAF 122219
TORMAF
TXC043-122315-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
519 PM CDT SAT JUN 12 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTH CENTRAL BREWSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
* UNTIL 615 PM CDT
* AT 516 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER NORTH
CENTRAL BREWSTER COUNTY...OR 13 MILES EAST OF MARATHON...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
NORTHEASTERN BREWSTER COUNTY...
EASTERN BREWSTER COUNTY...
A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME... TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE
HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS.
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 3036 10318 3008 10322 2993 10300 3009 10265
3036 10305
$$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, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 60 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.