Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 25, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 21, 2004, 5:22 AM CDT for Reagan County, Texas. It was in force for 38 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 21, 2004, 5:22 AM CDT (10:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2004, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Reagan County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:22 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2752 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMAF 211022 TORMAF TXC383-211100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 522 AM CDT MON JUN 21 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN REAGAN COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS * UNTIL 600 AM CDT * AT 517 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BIG LAKE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SOUTHERN REAGAN COUNTY... SOUTHEASTERN REAGAN 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 3134 10164 3110 10159 3111 10129 3138 10131 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 40 min |
| Jun 21, 1:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 43 min |
| Jun 21, 3:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 56 min |
| Jun 21, 4:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 57 min |
| Jun 21, 5:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 54 min |
| Jun 21, 5:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Reagan | 3 hr |
| Jun 21, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 55 min |
| Jun 21, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 55 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.