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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2005, 9:24 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 66 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
- May 30, 2005, 9:24 PM MDT (03:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2005, 10:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lea County, NM
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 716 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1694 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMAF 310327 TORMAF NMC025-310430- /O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0010.050531T0324Z-050531T0430Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 924 PM MDT MON MAY 30 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 1030 PM MDT * AT 919 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF BUCKEYE...OR 19 MILES WEST OF LOVINGTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... US HIGHWAY 82... STATE HIGHWAY 238... BUCKEYE... A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME... TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. IN ADDITION TO TORNADOES...THIS STORM HAS HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING UP TO BASEBALL SIZE HAIL. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220. LAT...LON 3309 10364 3291 10381 3252 10343 3288 10312 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KMAF 310403 SVSMAF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1101 PM CDT MON MAY 30 2005 NMC025-310430- /O.CON.KMAF.TO.W.0010.000000T0000Z-050531T0430Z/ LEA- 1001 PM MDT MON MAY 30 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1030 PM MDT FOR CENTRAL LEA COUNTY... AT 957 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO DETECT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF BUCKEYE...OR 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LOVINGTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE TORNADO INCLUDE... BUCKEYE... STATE HIGHWAY 238 BETWEEN BUCKEYE AND LOVINGTON... STATE HIGHWAY 483 APPROXIMATELY 11 MILES SOUTH OF LOVINGTON... HUMBLE CITY... A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME... TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO...IT MAY BE TOO LATE. TAKE COVER NOW. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220. LAT...LON 3309 10364 3291 10381 3252 10343 3288 10312 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 8:36 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 54 min |
| May 30, 10:21 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 54 min |
| May 30, 11:08 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 30 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.