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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

August 12, 2004Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Aug 12, 2004, 10:48 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 32 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
Aug 12, 2004, 10:48 PM MDT (04:48 UTC)
Expired
Aug 12, 2004, 11:20 PM MDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Eddy County, NM

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:49 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, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 174 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2004-08-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 415 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2004-08-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
415 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-188 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1770 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
200 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMAF 130448
TORMAF
NMC015-130520-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1048 PM MDT THU AUG 12 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN EDDY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO

* UNTIL 1120 PM MDT

* AT 1045 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO AND 
  TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR LOVING...OR  
  13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CARLSBAD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MALAGA...

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

TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU
SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO...IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW.

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

LAT...LON 3230 10409 3223 10416 3207 10399 3217 10377

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 12, 10:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy59 min
Aug 12, 10:32 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEddy3 hr
Aug 12, 10:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea46 min
Aug 12, 11:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy36 min
Aug 12, 11:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea60 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.