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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 23, 2007, 5:28 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 37 min. 7 reports 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
- Mar 23, 2007, 5:28 PM MDT (23:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 2007, 6:05 PM MDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lea County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 5:34 PM MDT | TORNADO | 12 N Tatum, NM | TORNADO TOUCHDOWN ON SH 206 BETWEEN TATUM AND CROSSROADS. |
| Mar 23, 5:45 PM MDT | HAIL 1.75 | 14 N Tatum, NM | 3 MILES NORTH OF THE INTERSECTION OF SH 206 AND 165. |
| Mar 23, 6:00 PM MDT | HAIL 1.75 | Milnesand, NM | |
| Mar 23, 6:04 PM MDT | TORNADO | 3 N Crossroads, NM | MEDIA REPORTED A CAR OVERTURNED BY A BRIEF TORNADO 3 NORTH OF CROSSROADS ON STATE HIGHWAY 206...AWAITING FURTHER INFORMATION. |
| Mar 23, 6:05 PM MDT | TORNADO | 1 S Milnesand, NM | BARNS DAMAGED |
| Mar 23, 6:06 PM MDT | TORNADO | Sw Milnesand, NM | |
| Mar 23, 6:08 PM MDT | HAIL 1 | Milnesand, NM |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 2:19 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 1360 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 538 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMAF 232330 TORMAF NMC025-240030- /O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0005.070323T2328Z-070324T0030Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 528 PM MDT FRI MAR 23 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO... * UNTIL 630 PM MDT * AT 528 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTH OF CROSSROADS...OR 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF TATUM...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. CROSSROADS IS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADIC STORM. PERSONS IN CROSSROADS SHOULD SEEK SAFE SHELTER. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM MDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. A TORNADO MAY REFORM 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 3336 10353 3325 10336 3357 10305 3368 10350 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS54 KMAF 232338 SVSMAF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 637 PM CDT FRI MAR 23 2007 NMC025-240030- /O.CON.KMAF.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-070324T0030Z/ LEA NM- 537 PM MDT FRI MAR 23 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM MDT FOR NORTHEASTERN LEA COUNTY... AT 534 PM MDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED BETWEEN CROSSROADS AND TATUM ON SH 206...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTH OF TATUM...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE THE TORNADO INCLUDE...CROSSROADS. PERSONS IN CROSSROADS NEED TO SEEK SHELTER NOW A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM MDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED... TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING NOW. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES ARE NOT SAFE. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220. LAT...LON 3336 10353 3325 10336 3357 10305 3368 10350 $$
000 WWUS54 KMAF 240005 SVSMAF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 704 PM CDT FRI MAR 23 2007 NMC025-240014- /O.CAN.KMAF.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-070324T0030Z/ LEA NM- 604 PM MDT FRI MAR 23 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN LEA COUNTY IS CANCELLED... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM MDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. AT 604 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING HAS EXITED THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING IS CANCELLED. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220. LAT...LON 3336 10353 3325 10336 3357 10305 3368 10350 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 9:26 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 4 hr |
| Mar 23, 3:50 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 55 min |
| Mar 23, 10:03 AM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 19 hr |
| Mar 23, 1:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 56 min |
| Mar 23, 2:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 63 min |
| Mar 23, 3:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 63 min |
| Mar 23, 3:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 63 min |
| Mar 23, 4:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 62 min |
| Mar 23, 5:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 60 min |
| Mar 23, 5:48 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 5 hr |
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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.