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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 9, 2005Brewster County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 2005, 6:58 PM CDT for Brewster County, Texas. It was in force for 62 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: Jun 9, 2005, 6:58 PM CDT (23:58 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2005, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Brewster County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 204 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 204 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMAF 092359
TORMAF
TXC043-100100-
/O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0025.050609T2358Z-050610T0100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
658 PM CDT THU JUN 9 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN BREWSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 652 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER
  NORTHEASTERN BREWSTER COUNTY...OR 7 MILES WEST OF LONGFELLOW...
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  LONGFELLOW...
  US 90 WEST OF LONGFELLOW...

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

WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR... IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED WITHIN THE STORM. A TORNADO
MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND OR MAY DEVELOP AT ANY TIME. IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM... MOVE TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF A
STURDY BUILDING OR INTO AN UNDERGROUND SHELTER. STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS. IF DRIVING... DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.

LAT...LON 3041 10309 3027 10317 2996 10271 3007 10261

$$

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, 5:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos	64 min
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

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.