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Tornado Warning 38, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 13, 2004, 4:51 PM CDT for Scurry 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 13, 2004, 4:51 PM CDT (21:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2004, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Scurry County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:52 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 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -162 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1559 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 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 132151 TORMAF TXC415-132245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 450 PM CDT WED OCT 13 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN SCURRY COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS * UNTIL 545 PM CDT * AT 448 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KNAPP...OR 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SNYDER...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. AT 450 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED ROTATION 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KNAPP. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... KNAPP... IRA... DUNN... CHINA GROVE... EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES AND SEEK SAFETY IN A STURDY REINFORCED BUILDING OR AN UNDERGROUND SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220. LAT...LON 3272 10114 3254 10117 3251 10081 3264 10080 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden | 62 min |
| Oct 13, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 40 min |
| Oct 13, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 59 min |
| Oct 13, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 54 min |
| Oct 13, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 51 min |
| Oct 13, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 41 min |
| Oct 13, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 60 min |
| Oct 13, 6:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 4 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.