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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 26, 2008Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2008, 6:15 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 30 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: May 26, 2008, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2008, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Pecos County, TX

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 26, 2:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 119 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: 2069 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 942 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 108 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMAF 262315
TORMAF
TXC371-262345-
/O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0025.080526T2315Z-080526T2345Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
615 PM CDT MON MAY 26 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 608 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A 
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 17 MILES EAST   
  OF FORT STOCKTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 9 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A      
  HISTORY OF FUNNELL CLOUDS AND A PUBLIC REPORT OF A TORNADO NEAR    
  I10 AT MILE MARKER 278. HAIL TO SOFTBALL SIZE IS POSSIBLE.

* THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
  CENTRAL PECOS COUNTY...

THE WARNED AREA INCLUDES INTERSTATE 10 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 270 AND 
295.

TAKE COVER NOW

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT 
MONDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS.

LAT...LON 3104 10245 3094 10224 3077 10220 3070 10269
      3094 10268
TIME...MOT...LOC 2313Z 333DEG 8KT 3084 10258

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KMAF 262326
SVSMAF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
626 PM CDT MON MAY 26 2008

TXC371-262345-
/O.CON.KMAF.TO.W.0025.000000T0000Z-080526T2345Z/
PECOS TX-
626 PM CDT MON MAY 26 2008

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL
PECOS COUNTY...

AT 617 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO 
DETECT A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS STORM  
WAS LOCATED 18 MILES EAST AND SOUTHEAST OF FORT STOCKTON...MOVING 
SOUTH AT 8 MPH. RADAR INDICATES THE FAVORED AREA FOR A TORNADO WOULD 
BE SOUTH OF I10 AT MILE MARKER 277.

SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...CENTRAL PECOS COUNTY 
AND AREAS ALONG AND SOUTH I10 FROM MILE MARKERS 272 THROUGH 300.

A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME... TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE 
HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
MONDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS.

LAT...LON 3104 10245 3094 10224 3077 10220 3070 10269
      3094 10268
TIME...MOT...LOC 2321Z 004DEG 7KT 3082 10260

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 7:19 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MAF	Pecos, Reagan, Reeves, Ward	133 days
May 25, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	55 min
May 25, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos, Reeves, Upton, Ward	61 min
May 25, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	57 min
May 26, 5:19 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	MAF		16 hr
May 26, 3:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos	57 min
May 26, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	62 min
May 26, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos	60 min
May 26, 4:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos	32 min
May 26, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	61 min
May 26, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	46 min
May 26, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos	44 min
May 26, 5:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos	29 min
May 26, 6:41 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Pecos	4 hr
May 26, 6:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos	58 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.