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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 23, 2007, 7:58 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Texas. It was in force for 17 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
- Apr 23, 2007, 7:58 PM CDT (00:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2007, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 17 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), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:59 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 5:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 1676 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2126 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMAF 240058 TORMAF TXC335-240115- /O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0020.070424T0058Z-070424T0115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 758 PM CDT MON APR 23 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN MITCHELL COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS... * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 755 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A TORNADO NEAR LORAINE...OR 9 MILES EAST OF COLORADO CITY...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL TRACK ALONG INTERSTATE 20 EAST OF EXIT 224. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING FOR WEST TEXAS. A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED... TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING NOW. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE NOT SAFE. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220. LAT...LON 3247 10074 3238 10073 3238 10067 3249 10066 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KMAF 240113 SVSMAF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 812 PM CDT MON APR 23 2007 TXC335-240122- /O.EXP.KMAF.TO.W.0020.000000T0000Z-070424T0115Z/ MITCHELL TX- 812 PM CDT MON APR 23 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN MITCHELL COUNTY EXPIRES AT 815 PM CDT... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING FOR WEST TEXAS. AT 812 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING HAS EXITED THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. DOPPLER RADAR AND STORM SPOTTERS CONTINUE TO INDICATE A TORNADO NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF INTERSTATE 20 AND U.S. HIGHWAY 84. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220. LAT...LON 3247 10074 3238 10073 3238 10067 3249 10066 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 30 min |
| Apr 23, 7:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Mitchell, Scurry | 53 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.