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Tornado Warning 57, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 3, 2007Jeff Davis County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 2007, 7:25 PM CDT for Jeff Davis 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: Jun 3, 2007, 7:25 PM CDT (00:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2007, 7:59 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Jeff Davis County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 215 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:27 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.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 3, 1:28 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Santa Teresa, NM (KEPZ), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 300 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: 849 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2943 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.4

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMAF 040026
TORMAF
TXC243-040115-
/O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0057.070604T0025Z-070604T0115Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
725 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN JEFF DAVIS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 723 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR FORT
  DAVIS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH ALONG STATE HIGHWAY 118 SOUTHEAST
  OF FORT DAVIS.

* THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
  SOUTHEASTERN JEFF DAVIS COUNTY...

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 1000 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS.

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

LAT...LON 3042 10391 3053 10403 3105 10403 3104 10400
      3098 10392 3067 10344 3040 10379 3040 10387

$$

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1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KMAF 040059
SVSMAF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
759 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2007

TXC243-040109-
/O.CAN.KMAF.TO.W.0057.000000T0000Z-070604T0115Z/
JEFF DAVIS TX-
759 PM CDT SUN JUN 3 2007

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN JEFF DAVIS COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

AT 759 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 IS CANCELLED.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS.

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

LAT...LON 3042 10391 3053 10403 3105 10403 3104 10400
      3098 10392 3067 10344 3040 10379 3040 10387

$$

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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
Jun 3, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	27 min
Jun 3, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Gaines	60 min
Jun 3, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reeves	45 min
Jun 3, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Culberson	53 min
Jun 3, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Winkler	57 min
Jun 3, 7:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Brewster	38 min
Jun 3, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Culberson	60 min
Jun 4, 5:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Presidio	27 min
Jun 4, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	41 min
Jun 4, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Presidio	60 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.