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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

October 5, 2004Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 5, 2004, 7:17 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 58 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, 7:17 PM MDT (01:17 UTC)
Expired: Oct 5, 2004, 8:15 PM MDT
In force: 58 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), 186 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:21 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, 2:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
Oct 5, 5:35 PM MDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 185 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1149 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 922 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 223 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 5.9

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMAF 060117
TORMAF
NMC015-060215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
717 PM MDT TUE OCT 5 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 815 PM MDT

* AT 712 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES NORTH OF
  LOCO HILLS...OR 27 MILES EAST OF ARTESIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 
  15 MPH. ANOTHER SEVERE STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS
  LOCATED JUST EAST OF WHITES CITY MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
  ADDITIONAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES
  WERE MOVING EAST INTO THE WESTERN PORTION OF EDDY COUNTY AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  NORTHEASTERN EDDY COUNTY...

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 3202 10373 3202 10428 3264 10480 3296 10471
      3297 10380 3251 10382 3251 10372

$$

05

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 5, 6:15 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Lea	60 min
Oct 5, 6:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	61 min
Oct 5, 7:15 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Lea	60 min
Oct 5, 7:26 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Eddy	3 hr
Oct 5, 8:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	45 min
Oct 5, 8:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	59 min
Oct 6, 8:02 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Lea	6 hr

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.