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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 12, 2004Brewster County, Terrell County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2004, 6:16 PM CDT for Brewster County, Terrell County, Texas. It was in force for 59 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, 6:16 PM CDT (23:16 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2004, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Brewster County, TX, Terrell County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 207 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:19 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

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 178 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: 2093 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -135 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 597 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 170 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.7

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The text

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

621 
WFUS54 KMAF 122316
TORMAF
TXC043-443-130015-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  TERRELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
  EAST CENTRAL BREWSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 611 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 11 MILES WEST OF
  SANDERSON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SANDERSON...

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

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

LAT...LON 3027 10258 3005 10257 3024 10285 2970 10329
      2937 10269 2962 10175 3059 10180 3060 10237
      3028 10237

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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, 5:19 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, 6:26 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.