Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Feb 27, 2005, 7:53 PM CST for Howard County, Texas. It was in force for 37 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
- Feb 27, 2005, 7:53 PM CST (01:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 2005, 8:30 PM CST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Howard County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:55 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 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2584 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMAF 280155 TORMAF TXC227-280230- /O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0003.050228T0153Z-050228T0230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 753 PM CST SUN FEB 27 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN HOWARD COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS * UNTIL 830 PM CST * AT 750 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN HOWARD COUNTY...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COAHOMA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... FARM ROAD 821... FARM ROAD 2183... RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN HOWARD COUNTY... A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME... TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS OR LARGER MAY ALSO ACCOMPANY THIS STORM. BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES DO NOT PROVIDE PROTECTION FROM TORNADIC WINDS. VEHICLES STOPPED UNDER BRIDGES AND OVERPASSES BLOCK TRAFFIC AND PREVENT OTHERS FROM REACHING SAFETY. IF YOU CANNOT SAFELY DRIVE AWAY FROM THE TORNADO... SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH... OR A LOW LYING AREA AWAY FROM YOUR VEHICLE. LIE FLAT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220. LAT...LON 3235 10118 3230 10129 3209 10121 3210 10118 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS54 KMAF 280213 SVSMAF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 809 PM CST SUN FEB 27 2005 TXC227-280230- /O.CON.KMAF.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-050228T0230Z/ HOWARD- 809 PM CST SUN FEB 27 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 830 PM CST FOR SOUTHEASTERN HOWARD COUNTY... AT 804 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO DETECT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH THE POTENTIAL OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN MITCHELL COUNTY...OR 20 MILES EAST OF BIG SPRING...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. AT 745 PM CST...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OBSERVED ROTATION WITH THIS STORM AND BY 750 PM CST...STRONG WINDS AND SMALL HAIL WAS REPORTED SOUTHEAST OF INTERSTATE 20. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER NOW. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220. LAT...LON 3235 10118 3230 10129 3209 10121 3210 10118 $$
000 WWUS54 KMAF 280221 SVSMAF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 820 PM CST SUN FEB 27 2005 TXC227-280230- /O.CAN.KMAF.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-050228T0230Z/ HOWARD- 820 PM CST SUN FEB 27 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN HOWARD COUNTY IS CANCELLED... AT 820 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING HAD WEAKENED AND HAD MOVED OUT OF THE COUNTY. THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING IS CANCELLED. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING WILL STILL PERSIST ACROSS EASTERN HOWARD COUNTY UNTIL 845 PM CST. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220. LAT...LON 3235 10118 3230 10129 3209 10121 3210 10118 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 6:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden | 67 min |
| Feb 27, 7:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Howard | 38 min |
| Feb 27, 7:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 62 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Texas, 2005Every tornado warning in 2005Tornadoes in 2005
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.