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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 5, 2004, 6:51 PM CDT for Culberson County, Texas. It was in force for 54 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
- Oct 5, 2004, 6:51 PM CDT (23:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 5, 2004, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Culberson County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 194 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:51 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Oct 5, 6:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 183 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 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 052351 TORMAF TXC109-060045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 650 PM CDT TUE OCT 5 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN CULBERSON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 645 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER NORTH CENTRAL CULBERSON COUNTY...OR 29 MILES EAST OF PINE SPRINGS... MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... NORTHEASTERN CULBERSON COUNTY ALONG FM 652... FROM THE REEVES/CULBERSON COUNTY LINE WEST TO 15 MILES EAST OF THE INTERSECTION OF FM 652 AND U.S. HIGHWAY 62/180. A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME... TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE AWAY FROM THE TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADIC WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO... LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO SAFE STRUCTURE IS NEARBY... SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220. LAT...LON 3200 10439 3184 10438 3171 10405 3200 10403 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson | 55 min |
| Oct 5, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson | 59 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.