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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 23, 2008Scurry County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 23, 2008, 3:21 PM CDT for Scurry County, Texas. It was in force for 20 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, 3:21 PM CDT (20:21 UTC)
Expired: Apr 23, 2008, 3:41 PM CDT
In force: 20 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Scurry County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 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 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, 10:07 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 167 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMAF 232021
TORMAF
TXC415-232100-
/O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0005.080423T2021Z-080423T2100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
321 PM CDT WED APR 23 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN SCURRY COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 316 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES NORTH OF
  MIDWAY...OR 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF SNYDER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35
  MPH.

* THE STORM WILL OTHERWISE IMPACT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE EAST    
  SCURRY COUNTY.

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. 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 400 PM CDT WEDNESDAY
AFTERNOON FOR WEST TEXAS.

LAT...LON 3296 10066 3264 10067 3261 10086 3279 10085
      3294 10081
TIME...MOT...LOC 2020Z 243DEG 31KT 3284 10065

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KMAF 232041
SVSMAF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
341 PM CDT WED APR 23 2008

TXC415-232051-
/O.CAN.KMAF.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-080423T2100Z/
SCURRY TX-
341 PM CDT WED APR 23 2008

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN SCURRY COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

AT 341 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT
THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING HAS EXITED THE WARNED
AREA. THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING IS CANCELLED.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS.

LAT...LON 3296 10066 3264 10067 3261 10086 3279 10085
      3294 10081
TIME...MOT...LOC 2041Z 243DEG 31KT 3292 10046

$$

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, 3:28 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
Apr 23, 6:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Howard	25 min

Nearby

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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.