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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 2005, 5:26 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 2005, 5:26 PM CDT (22:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2005, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pecos County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 177 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:26 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 5:30 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | 30 S Fort Stockton, TX | |
| Jun 9, 6:25 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 36 S Fort Stockton, TX | HAIL LASTED UNTIL 635 PM AND ACCOMPANIED BY 60 MPH WIND GUSTS |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 3146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -142 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 840 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KMAF 092229
TORMAF
TXC371-092330-
/O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0022.050609T2226Z-050609T2330Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
526 PM CDT THU JUN 9 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
* UNTIL 630 PM CDT
* AT 521 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 35 MILES
SOUTH OF FORT STOCKTON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ALONG US ROUTE 385...ABOUT 35 MILES SOUTH OF FORT STOCKTON...
A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME... TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE
HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS.
A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT TONIGHT.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.
LAT...LON 3058 10331 3039 10304 3028 10288 3042 10251
3087 10302
$$1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KMAF 092247 SVSMAF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 545 PM CDT THU JUN 9 2005 TXC371-092330- /O.CON.KMAF.TO.W.0022.000000T0000Z-050609T2330Z/ PECOS- 545 PM CDT THU JUN 9 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL PECOS COUNTY... AT 542 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A LARGE WALL CLOUD WITH INTERMITTENT FUNNEL CLOUDS WITH THE STORM OVER SOUTHERN PECOS COUNTY. THE POTENTIALLY TORNADIC PORTION OF THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 28 MILES SOUTH OF BELDING...OR 19 MILES NORTHEAST OF MARATHON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. U.S. HIGHWAY 385 IN FAR SOUTHERN PECOS COUNTY IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME... TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS. LAT...LON 3058 10331 3039 10304 3028 10288 3042 10251 3087 10302 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 58 min |
| Jun 8, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 52 min |
| Jun 8, 8:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 39 min |
| Jun 9, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 56 min |
| Jun 9, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 67 min |
| Jun 9, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 61 min |
| Jun 9, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 60 min |
| Jun 9, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 58 min |
| Jun 9, 4:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ward | 53 min |
| Jun 9, 6:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Brewster | 54 min |
| Jun 9, 6:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ward | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ward | 41 min |
| Jun 9, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 62 min |
| Jun 9, 6:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Brewster | 62 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.