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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 29, 2007, 1:37 PM CDT for Reeves County, Texas. It was in force for 53 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 29, 2007, 1:37 PM CDT (18:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2007, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Reeves County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 178 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:37 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 1:40 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | Toyavale, TX | PUBLIC SAID 140, RADAR SUGGESTS 129 OR 133 |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 29, 12:34 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 996 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 603 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMAF 291837 TORMAF TXC389-291930- /O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0023.070429T1837Z-070429T1930Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 137 PM CDT SUN APR 29 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL REEVES COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS... * UNTIL 230 PM CDT * AT 133 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR TOYAVALE... OR 27 MILES NORTH OF FORT DAVIS...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. * THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... BALMORHEA... SARAGOSA... A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME... TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220. LAT...LON 3095 10387 3085 10371 3131 10355 3125 10379 $$ 05
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KMAF 291913 SVSMAF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 211 PM CDT SUN APR 29 2007 TXC389-291930- /O.CON.KMAF.TO.W.0023.000000T0000Z-070429T1930Z/ REEVES TX- 211 PM CDT SUN APR 29 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 230 PM CDT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL REEVES COUNTY... AT 207 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTH OF SARAGOSA...OR ABOUT 23 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PECOS...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. THOUGH NO TORNADIC ROTATION WAS DETECTED...FURTHER STRENGTHENING IS POSSIBLE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220. LAT...LON 3095 10387 3085 10371 3131 10355 3125 10379 $$ 05
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 60 min |
| Apr 28, 8:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster | 3 hr |
| Apr 29, 4:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 62 min |
| Apr 29, 4:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MAF | Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 13 more | 23 hr |
| Apr 29, 5:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster | 3 hr |
| Apr 29, 5:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 64 min |
| Apr 29, 7:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Crane, Pecos, Ward | 4 hr |
| Apr 29, 10:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos | 3 hr |
| Apr 29, 11:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis | 61 min |
| Apr 29, 11:49 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis | 56 min |
| Apr 29, 12:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 35 min |
| Apr 29, 12:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson | 55 min |
| Apr 29, 12:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis, Reeves | 62 min |
| Apr 29, 12:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis | 54 min |
| Apr 29, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Midland | 60 min |
| Apr 29, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ward | 60 min |
| Apr 29, 1:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson | 56 min |
| Apr 29, 1:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Crane, Pecos, Ward | 3 hr |
| Apr 29, 1:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 63 min |
| Apr 29, 2:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Culberson, Jeff Davis | 3 hr |
| Apr 29, 2:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 44 min |
| Apr 29, 2:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson, Jeff Davis | 67 min |
| Apr 29, 2:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector | 4 hr |
| Apr 29, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 55 min |
| Apr 29, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 59 min |
| Apr 29, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 67 min |
| Apr 29, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane | 60 min |
| Apr 29, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 57 min |
| Apr 29, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 61 min |
| Apr 29, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 65 min |
| Apr 29, 4:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 61 min |
| Apr 29, 5:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Midland | 3 hr |
| Apr 29, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 59 min |
| Apr 29, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 66 min |
| Apr 29, 5:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos | 4 hr |
| Apr 29, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 54 min |
| Apr 29, 5:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 47 min |
| Apr 29, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 55 min |
| Apr 29, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Pecos | 56 min |
| Apr 29, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 24 min |
| Apr 29, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 61 min |
| Apr 29, 6:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Crane, Pecos | 55 min |
| Apr 29, 6:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector | 5 hr |
| Apr 29, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 46 min |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.