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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 3, 2004Gaines County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 3, 2004, 5:31 PM CST for Gaines County, Texas. It was in force for 59 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: Apr 3, 2004, 5:31 PM CST (23:31 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 2004, 6:30 PM CST
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Gaines County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 11 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -258 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 753 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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The text

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

484 
WFUS54 KMAF 032331
TORMAF
TXC165-040030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
530 PM CST SAT APR 3 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  GAINES COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 630 PM CST

* AT 524 PM CST...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 17
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF SEAGRAVES.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  STATE HIGHWAY 214 NORTHWEST OF SEMINOLE...AND SEAGRAVES

A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME...TAKE COVER NOW ABANDON MOBILE HOMES
AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS.

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE
HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. SEEK SAFE SHELTER NOW

THE SAFEST PLACES TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT OR AN
UNDERGROUND SHELTER. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY
FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STRONG BUILDING. MOVE INTO AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR CLOSET
AWAY FROM WINDOWS. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND MOVE TO A
SUBSTANTIAL 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...CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 5 9 7 3 2 2 0.

LAT...LON 3281 10296 3272 10279 3294 10254 3295 10287

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 3, 3:33 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Gaines	57 min
Apr 3, 3:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reeves	45 min
Apr 3, 3:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	54 min
Apr 3, 3:51 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Gaines	39 min
Apr 3, 3:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Culberson, Jeff Davis	61 min
Apr 3, 4:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Presidio	57 min
Apr 3, 4:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Reeves	51 min
Apr 3, 4:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	49 min
Apr 3, 4:30 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Gaines	3 hr
Apr 3, 4:31 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Gaines	59 min
Apr 3, 4:37 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Jeff Davis	38 min
Apr 3, 4:44 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Gaines	46 min
Apr 3, 5:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reeves	58 min
Apr 3, 5:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Presidio	55 min
Apr 3, 5:16 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Culberson, Jeff Davis, Reeves	3 hr
Apr 3, 5:16 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Jeff Davis	29 min
Apr 3, 5:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	65 min
Apr 3, 5:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Jeff Davis	51 min
Apr 3, 5:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reeves	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.