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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 31, 2005, 12:08 AM CDT for Gaines County, Texas; Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 30 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 31, 2005, 12:08 AM CDT (05:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2005, 12:38 AM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Lea County, NM, Gaines County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 105 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 310511 TORMAF NMC025-TXC165-310615- /O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0012.050531T0508Z-050531T0615Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1208 AM CDT TUE MAY 31 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN GAINES COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS EXTREME EAST CENTRAL LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO * UNTIL 115 AM CDT(1215 AM MDT) * AT 1103 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 17 MILES WEST OF PAYNES CORNER...OR 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HOBBS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... US 62/180 IN WESTERN GAINES COUNTY... SOUTHWESTERN GAINES COUNTY... A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME... TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WAS ALREADY REPORTED NEAR THE HIGH SCHOOL ON THE SOUTHEAST SIDE OF HOBBS IN LEA COUNTY. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220. LAT...LON 3279 10311 3252 10311 3253 10271 3271 10261 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KMAF 310538 SVSMAF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1238 AM CDT TUE MAY 31 2005 NMC025-TXC165-310548- /O.CAN.KMAF.TO.W.0012.000000T0000Z-050531T0615Z/ GAINES-LEA- 1238 AM CDT TUE MAY 31 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EXTREME EAST CENTRAL LEA AND SOUTHWESTERN GAINES COUNTIES IS CANCELLED... AT 1238 AM CDT(1138 PM MDT)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING HAD WEAKENED AND NO LONGER APPEARS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES OR OTHER SEVERE WEATHER. THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING IS CANCELLED. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220. LAT...LON 3279 10311 3252 10311 3253 10271 3271 10261 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 5:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Scurry | 46 min |
| May 31, 7:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden | 59 min |
| May 31, 8:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 57 min |
| May 31, 8:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 62 min |
| May 31, 9:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 18 min |
| May 30, 9:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 54 min |
| May 30, 10:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 66 min |
| May 30, 11:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 54 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.