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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2007, 11:04 AM CDT for Mitchell County, Texas. It was in force for 16 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 30, 2007, 11:04 AM CDT (16:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2007, 11:20 AM CDT
- In force
- 16 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Mitchell County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 30, 6:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1725 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 351 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 553 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMAF 301605 TORMAF TXC335-301620- /O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0017.070330T1604Z-070330T1620Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1104 AM CDT FRI MAR 30 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN MITCHELL COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS... * UNTIL 1120 AM CDT * AT 1101 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN MITCHELL COUNTY...OR 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COLORADO CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE STORM WILL PASS OVER STATE HIGHWAY 208 ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COLORADO CITY. A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME... TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE AWAY FROM THE TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADIC WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO... LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO SAFE STRUCTURE IS NEARBY... SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT 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 3208 10083 3209 10067 3222 10067 3216 10081 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KMAF 301619 SVSMAF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1118 AM CDT FRI MAR 30 2007 TXC335-301627- /O.EXP.KMAF.TO.W.0017.000000T0000Z-070330T1620Z/ MITCHELL TX- 1118 AM CDT FRI MAR 30 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN MITCHELL COUNTY EXPIRES AT 1120 AM CDT... AT 1117 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING HAS EXITED THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220. LAT...LON 3208 10083 3209 10067 3222 10067 3216 10081 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 5:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 49 min |
| Mar 30, 5:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 56 min |
| Mar 30, 5:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 23 min |
| Mar 30, 6:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 42 min |
| Mar 30, 6:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 65 min |
| Mar 30, 6:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 50 min |
| Mar 30, 7:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Winkler | 57 min |
| Mar 30, 7:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden | 24 min |
| Mar 30, 7:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 67 min |
| Mar 30, 7:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews | 3 hr |
| Mar 30, 8:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 37 min |
| Mar 30, 8:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 46 min |
| Mar 30, 8:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 26 min |
| Mar 30, 8:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 63 min |
| Mar 30, 9:12 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector | 3 hr |
| Mar 30, 9:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 62 min |
| Mar 30, 10:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 59 min |
| Mar 30, 11:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 3 hr |
| Mar 30, 2:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 41 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.