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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 10, 2005Brewster County, Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 2005, 3:17 PM CDT for Brewster County, Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 43 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 10, 2005, 3:17 PM CDT (20:17 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2005, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Brewster County, TX, Pecos County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 192 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 192 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: 3111 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -109 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 738 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 145 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 4.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMAF 102019
TORMAF
TXC043-371-102100-
/O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0028.050610T2017Z-050610T2100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
317 PM CDT FRI JUN 10 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH CENTRAL PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
  NORTHEASTERN BREWSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 314 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 14 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF LONGFELLOW...OR 24 MILES EAST OF MARATHON...MOVING    
  SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. IN ADDITION TO TORNADOES...THIS STORM HAS A   
  HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  LONGFELLOW...
  U.S. HIGHWAY 90 EAST OF MARATHON...

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

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

LAT...LON 3027 10308 2998 10259 3026 10259 3030 10237
      3038 10256 3053 10284

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KMAF 102043
SVSMAF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
341 PM CDT FRI JUN 10 2005

TXC043-371-102100-
/O.CON.KMAF.TO.W.0028.000000T0000Z-050610T2100Z/
PECOS-BREWSTER-
341 PM CDT FRI JUN 10 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR NORTHEASTERN
BREWSTER AND SOUTH CENTRAL PECOS COUNTIES...

AT 337 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
DETECT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE 
MOST DANGEROUS PORTION OF THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR THE PECOS AND 
BREWSTER COUNTY LINE 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF LONGFELLOW...OR 20 MILES 
EAST OF MARATHON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE TORNADO INCLUDE...U.S. HIGHWAY 90 
EAST OF MARATHON AND RURAL LOCATIONS WEST OF LONGFELLOW.

IN ADDITION TO A POSSIBLE TORNADO...THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF 
PRODUCING LARGE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS. TAKE COVER NOW. 
ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. 
AVOID WINDOWS.

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

LAT...LON 3027 10308 2998 10259 3026 10259 3030 10237
      3038 10256 3053 10284

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 7:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	64 min
Jun 9, 8:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Terrell	63 min
Jun 9, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Terrell	39 min
Jun 10, 7:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	67 min
Jun 10, 7:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	55 min
Jun 10, 8:44 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos, Upton	3 hr
Jun 10, 11:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	51 min
Jun 10, 11:39 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Upton	4 hr
Jun 10, 11:42 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Pecos	4 hr
Jun 10, 12:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	48 min
Jun 10, 1:19 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Reagan	3 hr
Jun 10, 2:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	48 min
Jun 10, 2:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Pecos	3 hr
Jun 10, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Brewster, Pecos	60 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.