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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

March 29, 2007Glasscock County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 29, 2007, 1:24 AM CDT for Glasscock County, Texas. It was in force for 34 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: Mar 29, 2007, 1:24 AM CDT (06:24 UTC)
Expired: Mar 29, 2007, 1:58 AM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Glasscock County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:24 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.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 28, 8:51 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 58 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: 2254 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -116 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1208 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMAF 290624
TORMAF
TXC173-290730-
/O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0015.070329T0624Z-070329T0730Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
124 AM CDT THU MAR 29 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN GLASSCOCK COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...

* UNTIL 230 AM CDT

* AT 120 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 17 MILES WEST OF
  GARDEN CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
  GARDEN CITY...
  LEES...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM CDT THURSDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND PARTS OF WEST TEXAS.

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 3192 10178 3176 10177 3189 10132 3209 10131
      3209 10153

$$
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2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS54 KMAF 290639
SVSMAF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
139 AM CDT THU MAR 29 2007

TXC173-290730-
/O.CON.KMAF.TO.W.0015.000000T0000Z-070329T0730Z/
GLASSCOCK TX-
139 AM CDT THU MAR 29 2007

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 230 AM CDT FOR NORTHERN
GLASSCOCK COUNTY...

AT 137 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO
DETECT A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF
GARDEN CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE THE TORNADO INCLUDE...GARDEN CITY AND
LEES.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM CDT THURSDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND PARTS OF WEST TEXAS.

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 3192 10178 3176 10177 3189 10132 3209 10131
      3209 10153

$$
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000 
WWUS54 KMAF 290658
SVSMAF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
157 AM CDT THU MAR 29 2007

TXC173-290707-
/O.CAN.KMAF.TO.W.0015.000000T0000Z-070329T0730Z/
GLASSCOCK TX-
157 AM CDT THU MAR 29 2007

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN GLASSCOCK COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN GLASSCOCK CONTINUES
   UNTIL 215 AM CDT...

AT 157 AM 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. THEREFORE THE TORNADO
WARNING IS CANCELLED. NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH
REMAIN POSSIBLE IN NORTHEAST GLASSCOCK COUNTY...SO THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING WILL CONTINUE.

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

LAT...LON 3192 10178 3176 10177 3189 10132 3209 10131
      3209 10153

$$
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 28, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	62 min
Mar 28, 10:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	51 min
Mar 28, 10:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	44 min
Mar 28, 10:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	50 min
Mar 28, 11:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Andrews	42 min
Mar 28, 11:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Ector	58 min
Mar 28, 11:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Dawson, Gaines, Martin	64 min
Mar 28, 11:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos	57 min
Mar 28, 11:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin, Midland	55 min
Mar 29, 12:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	55 min
Mar 29, 12:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	63 min
Mar 29, 12:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson	45 min
Mar 29, 12:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane	61 min
Mar 29, 12:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden	57 min
Mar 29, 1:04 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Dawson	4 hr
Mar 29, 1:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	66 min
Mar 29, 1:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	61 min
Mar 29, 1:25 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Upton	53 min
Mar 29, 1:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	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.