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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 23, 2008, 6:55 PM CDT for Howard 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
- Apr 23, 2008, 6:55 PM CDT (23:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2008, 7:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Howard County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 3:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 2797 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 758 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 13.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMAF 232355 TORMAF TXC227-240045- /O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0013.080423T2355Z-080424T0045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 655 PM CDT WED APR 23 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL HOWARD COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS... * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 651 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF COAHOMA...OR 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF BIG SPRING...MOVING EAST AT 29 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... COAHOMA... 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 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS. LAT...LON 3239 10118 3225 10118 3236 10150 3243 10147 TIME...MOT...LOC 2356Z 289DEG 25KT 3239 10135 $$ 05
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KMAF 240020 SVSMAF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 720 PM CDT THU APR 23 2008 TXC227-240030- /O.CAN.KMAF.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-080424T0045Z/ HOWARD TX- 720 PM CDT THU APR 23 2008 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL HOWARD COUNTY IS CANCELLED... AT 720 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING HAS EXITED THE WARNED AREA AND WEAKENED. THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING IS CANCELLED. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS. LAT...LON 3239 10118 3225 10118 3236 10150 3243 10147 TIME...MOT...LOC 0020Z 289DEG 25KT 3233 10116 $$ 05
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 5:48 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MAF | Loving | 14 hr |
| Apr 23, 9:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Dawson | 56 min |
| Apr 23, 10:09 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Borden | 66 min |
| Apr 23, 12:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden | 45 min |
| Apr 23, 12:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Scurry | 34 min |
| Apr 23, 1:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Borden | 3 hr |
| Apr 23, 2:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 41 min |
| Apr 23, 2:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 66 min |
| Apr 23, 2:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden | 27 min |
| Apr 23, 2:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson, Gaines | 59 min |
| Apr 23, 2:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 56 min |
| Apr 23, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Pecos | 49 min |
| Apr 23, 2:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Scurry | 49 min |
| Apr 23, 3:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Dawson | 42 min |
| Apr 23, 3:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Scurry | 20 min |
| Apr 23, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 62 min |
| Apr 23, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Dawson | 30 min |
| Apr 23, 4:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Gaines | 41 min |
| Apr 23, 4:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Borden | 37 min |
| Apr 23, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Dawson, Gaines | 41 min |
| Apr 23, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden | 42 min |
| Apr 23, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 23 min |
| Apr 23, 5:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Dawson | 47 min |
| Apr 23, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 22 min |
| Apr 23, 5:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Martin | 47 min |
| Apr 23, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Dawson, Howard | 25 min |
| Apr 23, 6:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Howard | 25 min |
| Apr 23, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 29 min |
| Apr 23, 6:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 24 min |
| Apr 23, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 45 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.