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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Mar 17, 2008, 10:35 PM CDT for Reagan County, Texas. It was in force for 25 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 17, 2008, 10:35 PM CDT (03:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2008, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Reagan County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:38 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3377 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 90 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KMAF 180336
TORMAF
TXC383-180400-
/O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0001.080318T0335Z-080318T0400Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1035 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN REAGAN COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...
* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
* AT 1029 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR STILES...OR
15 MILES NORTH OF BIG LAKE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
STATE HIGHWAY 137 NORTH OF BIG LAKE...
FARM TO MARKET ROADS 33 AND 2600...
A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME... TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE
HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS.
IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO... THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
LARGE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. SEEK SAFE SHELTER
NOW.
LAT...LON 3165 10127 3131 10127 3132 10158 3148 10159
3162 10143
TIME...MOT...LOC 0335Z 228DEG 36KT 3145 10145
$$2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS54 KMAF 180349
SVSMAF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1048 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008
TXC383-180400-
/O.CON.KMAF.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-080318T0400Z/
REAGAN TX-
1048 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN REAGAN COUNTY...
AT 1046 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO
DETECT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS
TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER RURAL NORTHEASTERN REAGAN COUNTY...ABOUT 24
MILES NORTH OF BIG LAKE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE TORNADO INCLUDE...RURAL NORTHEASTERN
REAGAN COUNTY.
IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO... THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
LARGE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. SEEK SAFE SHELTER
NOW IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
LAT...LON 3165 10127 3139 10128 3147 10152 3162 10144
3163 10141 3163 10135 3165 10133
TIME...MOT...LOC 0348Z 228DEG 36KT 3154 10134
$$000
WWUS54 KMAF 180357
SVSMAF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1057 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008
TXC383-180407-
/O.EXP.KMAF.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-080318T0400Z/
REAGAN TX-
1057 PM CDT MON MAR 17 2008
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN REAGAN COUNTY EXPIRES AT 1100
PM CDT...
AT 1057 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THAT THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING IS EXITING THE
WARNED AREA. THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
LAT...LON 3165 10127 3139 10128 3147 10152 3162 10144
3163 10141 3163 10135 3165 10133
TIME...MOT...LOC 0357Z 228DEG 36KT 3160 10126
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 8:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 31 min |
| Mar 17, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 31 min |
| Mar 17, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 43 min |
| Mar 18, 2:58 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | MAF | 23 hr |
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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.