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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 23, 2007, 7:08 PM CDT for Reeves County, Texas. It was in force for 52 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 23, 2007, 7:08 PM CDT (00:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 2007, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 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), 168 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:08 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 23, 3:19 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 2078 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1058 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.2
- Supercell composite
- 8.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KMAF 240009
TORMAF
TXC389-240100-
/O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0006.070324T0008Z-070324T0100Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
708 PM CDT FRI MAR 23 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN REEVES COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...
* UNTIL 800 PM CDT
* AT 659 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER CENTRAL
REEVES COUNTY...OR 22 MILES WEST OF PECOS...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
FARM TO MARKET ROAD 2119 NORTHWEST OF PECOS
OPEN COUNTRY OF NORTHERN REEVES COUNTY...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FRIDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS.
A TORNADO MAY FORM 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 3133 10411 3135 10376 3148 10361 3167 10379
3181 10390
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS54 KMAF 240037
SVSMAF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
731 PM CDT FRI MAR 23 2007
TXC389-240100-
/O.CON.KMAF.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-070324T0100Z/
REEVES TX-
731 PM CDT FRI MAR 23 2007
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR
NORTHWESTERN REEVES COUNTY...
AT 715 PM CDT QUARTER SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
IN THE TOWN OF TOYAH.
AT 725 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
DETECT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ALONG HIGHWAY 285...15 NORTHWEST
OF PECOS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 30 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL AFFECT HIGHWAY 285 NORTHWEST OF PECOS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FRIDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY... CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.
LAT...LON 3133 10411 3135 10376 3148 10361 3167 10379
3181 10390
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 7:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 59 min |
| Mar 23, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Loving | 42 min |
| Mar 23, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Loving | 51 min |
| Mar 23, 8:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Loving | 27 min |
| Mar 23, 8:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 48 min |
| Mar 23, 8:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Upton | 65 min |
| Mar 23, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 16 min |
| Mar 23, 9:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Reagan, Upton | 38 min |
| Mar 23, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis | 65 min |
| Mar 23, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 22 min |
| Mar 23, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis | 61 min |
| Mar 23, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 60 min |
| Mar 23, 11:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 26 min |
| Mar 23, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Loving | 51 min |
| Mar 23, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 57 min |
| Mar 23, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 30 min |
| Mar 23, 11:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ward, Winkler | 53 min |
| Mar 24, 12:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 63 min |
| Mar 24, 12:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane | 64 min |
| Mar 24, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ward, Winkler | 15 min |
| Mar 24, 12:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 62 min |
| Mar 24, 1:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane | 36 min |
| Mar 24, 1:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 65 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.