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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2008, 8:37 PM CDT for Martin County, Texas. It was in force for 38 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 27, 2008, 8:37 PM CDT (01:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2008, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Martin 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 27, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 2067 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1841 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 8.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMAF 280137 TORMAF TXC317-280215- /O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0030.080528T0137Z-080528T0215Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 837 PM CDT TUE MAY 27 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL MARTIN COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS... * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 831 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEORLOGISTS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR BUFORD... OR 17 MILES SOUTH OF LAMESA...MOVING EAST AT 11 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... FLOWER GROVE... STATE HIGHWAY 137... 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 1100 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS. LAT...LON 3251 10176 3235 10180 3241 10200 3252 10201 TIME...MOT...LOC 0134Z 284DEG 9KT 3248 10195 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KMAF 280209 SVSMAF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 909 PM CDT WED MAY 27 2008 TXC317-280216- /O.EXP.KMAF.TO.W.0030.000000T0000Z-080528T0215Z/ MARTIN TX- 909 PM CDT WED MAY 27 2008 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL MARTIN COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 915 PM CDT... AT 906 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE ROTATION IN THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING HAD WEAKENED. THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS. LAT...LON 3251 10176 3235 10180 3241 10200 3252 10201 TIME...MOT...LOC 0206Z 284DEG 9KT 3246 10186 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson, Gaines | 58 min |
| May 27, 7:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Dawson | 43 min |
| May 27, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Ector, Ward, Winkler | 55 min |
| May 27, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 16 min |
| May 27, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 31 min |
| May 27, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 59 min |
| May 27, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson, Gaines | 58 min |
| May 27, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Dawson | 39 min |
| May 27, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Martin | 62 min |
| May 27, 8:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Dawson | 3 hr |
| May 27, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson, Gaines | 62 min |
| May 27, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 34 min |
| May 27, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson, Gaines, Martin | 59 min |
| May 27, 9:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Borden | 3 hr |
| May 28, 1:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 55 min |
| May 28, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson | 39 min |
| May 28, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis | 47 min |
| May 28, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Culberson | 64 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.