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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 23, 2008Borden County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 23, 2008, 4:23 PM CDT for Borden County, Texas. It was in force for 37 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, 4:23 PM CDT (21:23 UTC)
Expired: Apr 23, 2008, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Borden County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:27 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, 3:25 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 100 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 232123
TORMAF
TXC033-232200-
/O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0008.080423T2123Z-080423T2200Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN BORDEN COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 417 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER EXTREME
  SOUTHWESTERN BORDEN COUNTY...OR 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GAIL...MOVING
  EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE STORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...RURAL SOUTHERN     
  BORDEN COUNTY...

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

EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES AND SEEK SAFETY IN A STURDY REINFORCED BUILDING
OR AN UNDERGROUND 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 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS.

LAT...LON 3264 10130 3252 10129 3252 10170 3266 10169
      3267 10169 3269 10166 3269 10137
TIME...MOT...LOC 2122Z 270DEG 26KT 3258 10164

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KMAF 232151
SVSMAF

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

TXC033-232200-
/O.CON.KMAF.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-080423T2200Z/
BORDEN TX-
451 PM CDT WED APR 23 2008

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR SOUTHERN
BORDEN COUNTY...

AT 445 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO 
DETECT A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS STORM WAS 
LOCATED OVER SOUTH CENTRAL BORDEN COUNTY...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTH 
OF GAIL NEARING FM 669...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE TORNADO INCLUDE...SOUTH CENTRAL BORDEN
COUNTY.

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

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 1100 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS.

LAT...LON 3264 10130 3252 10129 3252 10170 3266 10169
      3267 10169 3269 10166 3269 10137
TIME...MOT...LOC 2149Z 270DEG 26KT 3258 10150

$$

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, 4:49 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

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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.