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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Aug 21, 2004, 8:45 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 60 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, 8:45 PM CDT (01:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 21, 2004, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 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), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:45 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, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 153 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 220145
TORMAF
TXC371-220245-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
845 PM CDT SAT AUG 21 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
* UNTIL 945 PM CDT
* AT 837 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF BELDING...OR 11 MILES SOUTH OF FORT STOCKTON...MOVING
SOUTH AT 15 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
RURAL AREAS ALONG U.S. HIGHWAY 385 SOUTH OF FORT STOCKTON...
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. STORM DAMAGE HAS
BEEN CONFIRMED JUST SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 10 NEAR FARM TO MARKET ROAD
2037. IN ADDITION...VERY LARGE AND DESTRUCTIVE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE
OF BASEBALLS IS LIKELY.
RESIDENTS AND MOTORISTS NEAR BELDING...AND ALONG U.S. HIGHWAY 385
SOUTH OF FORT STOCKTON SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE SAFETY PRECAUTIONS.
LAT...LON 3111 10288 3068 10319 3016 10261 3030 10258
3030 10239 3081 10238
$$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, 7:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 57 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, 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 |
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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.