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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Aug 21, 2004, 7:48 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 57 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 21, 2004, 7:48 PM CDT (00:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 21, 2004, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pecos County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:50 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, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -176 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 931 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 303 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMAF 220048 TORMAF TXC371-220145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 748 PM CDT SAT AUG 21 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 742 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTH OF FORT STOCKTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. LARGE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... FORT STOCKTON... 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 3108 10299 3091 10305 3085 10269 3105 10260 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 56 min |
| Aug 21, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 66 min |
| Aug 21, 7:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Midland | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 58 min |
| Aug 21, 8:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Gaines | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 60 min |
| Aug 21, 9:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 63 min |
| Aug 21, 9:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster | 4 hr |
| Aug 21, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Presidio | 65 min |
| Aug 21, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 64 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.