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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 6, 2008, 5:49 PM CDT for Crane County, Upton County, Texas. It was in force for 26 min. 3 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
- May 6, 2008, 5:49 PM CDT (22:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2008, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Crane County, TX, Upton County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 5:49 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 1 Sw Crane, TX | TIME ESTIMATED |
| May 6, 6:00 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | Crane, TX | |
| May 6, 6:05 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | Crane, TX |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 3:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 67 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
- 1418 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 655 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 324 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.2
- Supercell composite
- 9.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMAF 062249 TORMAF TXC103-461-062315- /O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0018.080506T2249Z-080506T2315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 549 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL CRANE COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS... WEST CENTRAL UPTON COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS... * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 544 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER EAST CENTRAL CRANE COUNTY...OR 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CRANE...MOVING EAST AT 26 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... WESTERN UPTON COUNTY... EASTERN CRANE COUNTY... A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME... TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. THE SAFEST PLACES TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT OR AN UNDERGROUND SHELTER. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE... SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STRONG BUILDING. MOVE INTO AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR CLOSET AWAY FROM WINDOWS. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES... EVACUATE THEM AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE... LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS. LAT...LON 3147 10217 3125 10217 3126 10247 3133 10249 TIME...MOT...LOC 2249Z 252DEG 23KT 3132 10237 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KMAF 062302 SVSMAF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 602 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2008 TXC103-461-062315- /O.CON.KMAF.TO.W.0018.000000T0000Z-080506T2315Z/ CRANE TX-UPTON TX- 602 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2008 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR WEST CENTRAL UPTON AND EAST CENTRAL CRANE COUNTIES... AT 558 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO DETECT A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER EAST CENTRAL CRANE COUNTY...OR ABOUT 6 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF CRANE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. PEOPLE IN CRANE SHOULD SEEK SAFE SHELTER NOW SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE TORNADO INCLUDE...EAST CENTRAL CRANE COUNTY...EXTREME EAST CENTRAL CRANE COUNTY AND WEST CENTRAL UPTON COUNTY. A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME... TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS. LAT...LON 3147 10217 3125 10217 3126 10247 3133 10249 TIME...MOT...LOC 2301Z 257DEG 17KT 3133 10239 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson | 61 min |
| May 5, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Presidio | 64 min |
| May 5, 11:47 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Crane | 153 days |
| May 6, 12:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Pecos | 21 min |
| May 6, 2:19 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Gaines, Midland | 153 days |
| May 6, 7:33 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MAF | Loving | 14 hr |
| May 6, 2:57 PM CDT | High Wind Warning | MAF | 30 hr | |
| May 6, 3:16 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MAF | Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 13 more | 28 hr |
| May 6, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 53 min |
| May 6, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Pecos, Reeves, Ward | 62 min |
| May 6, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 48 min |
| May 6, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 54 min |
| May 6, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Pecos | 35 min |
| May 6, 5:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Crane, Pecos | 31 min |
| May 6, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Pecos, Terrell | 26 min |
| May 6, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Upton | 65 min |
| May 6, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 35 min |
| May 6, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 33 min |
| May 6, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Upton | 29 min |
| May 6, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Ector | 27 min |
| May 6, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 22 min |
| May 6, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves, Ward | 36 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.