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Tornado Warning 29, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Aug 21, 2004, 9:42 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 63 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, 9:42 PM CDT (02:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 21, 2004, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 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), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 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.
- 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 220242 TORMAF TXC371-220345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 942 PM CDT SAT AUG 21 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 1045 PM CDT * AT 937 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 24 MILES SOUTH OF FORT STOCKTON OVER U.S. HIGHWAY 385. THIS STORM IS MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... U.S. HIGHWAY 385 IN SOUTHERN PECOS COUNTY... 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 3066 10304 3051 10321 3008 10258 3061 10259 $$
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, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 60 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.