Alert archive / Texas / Tornado Warnings in 2005

Tornado Warning 7, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 10, 2005Ward County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 10, 2005, 4:54 PM CDT for Ward County, Texas. It was in force for 58 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 10, 2005, 4:54 PM CDT (21:54 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2005, 5:52 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ward County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:56 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 10, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 89 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: 1268 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -207 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1432 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 149 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMAF 102155
TORMAF
TXC475-102300-
/O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0007.050510T2154Z-050510T2300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
454 PM CDT TUE MAY 10 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN WARD COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 451 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF
  ROYALTY...OR 17 MILES SOUTH OF MONAHANS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  ROYALTY...
  MONAHANS...
  FARM TO MARKET ROAD 1219 IN WARD COUNTY...

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

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO... THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 
LARGE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLF BALLS. SEEK SAFE SHELTER NOW.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS.

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

LAT...LON 3140 10305 3137 10298 3133 10288 3128 10282
      3130 10277 3165 10277 3165 10296

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS54 KMAF 102235
SVSMAF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
532 PM CDT TUE MAY 10 2005

TXC475-102300-
/O.CON.KMAF.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-050510T2300Z/
WARD-
532 PM CDT TUE MAY 10 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR EASTERN WARD
COUNTY...

AT 530 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
DETECT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 8 
MILES SOUTH OF MONAHANS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.  HAIL UP TO 
THE SIZE OF NICKELS HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.  

SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE...STATE HIGHWAY 
18 ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF MONAHANS AND EASTERN WARD COUNTY.  

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT 
TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS. 

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

LAT...LON 3140 10305 3137 10298 3133 10288 3128 10282
      3130 10277 3165 10277 3165 10296

$$

000 
WWUS54 KMAF 102252
SVSMAF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
552 PM CDT TUE MAY 10 2005

TXC475-102302-
/O.CAN.KMAF.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-050510T2300Z/
WARD-
552 PM CDT TUE MAY 10 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN WARD COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

AT 552 PM CDT...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.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS.

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

LAT...LON 3140 10305 3137 10298 3133 10288 3128 10282
      3130 10277 3165 10277 3165 10296

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos, Ward	54 min
May 10, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	38 min
May 10, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	50 min
May 10, 6:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	62 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Texas, 2005 Every tornado warning in 2005 Tornadoes 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.