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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 11, 2009, 7:43 PM CDT for Glasscock County, Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 32 min. 2 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
- Apr 11, 2009, 7:43 PM CDT (00:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 2009, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Glasscock County, TX, Midland County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 7:56 PM CDT | TORNADO | 6 Se Spraberry, TX | APPROX 5 TO 8 MILES SE OF INTERSECTION OF 1379 AND 158 |
| Apr 11, 8:11 PM CDT | HAIL 1.5 | 16 Se Midland, TX | GOLF BALL TO PING PONG SIZE HAIL REPORTED. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 295 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1592 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 571 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMAF 120043 TORMAF TXC173-329-120115- /O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0003.090412T0043Z-090412T0115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 743 PM CDT SAT APR 11 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN GLASSCOCK COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS... EAST CENTRAL MIDLAND COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS... * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 742 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR SPRABERRY...OR 16 MILES SOUTH OF STANTON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... CENTRAL GLASSCOCK COUNTY... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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 SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS. && LAT...LON 3207 10151 3176 10147 3182 10189 3193 10189 TIME...MOT...LOC 0043Z 263DEG 28KT 3189 10177 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KMAF 120054 SVSMAF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 754 PM CDT SAT APR 11 2009 TXC173-329-120115- /O.CON.KMAF.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-090412T0115Z/ GLASSCOCK TX-MIDLAND TX- 754 PM CDT SAT APR 11 2009 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR EAST CENTRAL MIDLAND AND WESTERN GLASSCOCK COUNTIES... AT 752 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO DETECT A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 9 MILES EAST OF SPRABERRY...OR ABOUT 13 MILES WEST OF GARDEN CITY...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE TORNADO INCLUDE...RURAL AREAS OF CENTRAL GLASSCOCK COUNTY. THIS TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO STAY NORTH OF TEXAS 158. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME... TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS. && LAT...LON 3207 10151 3176 10147 3182 10189 3193 10189 TIME...MOT...LOC 0053Z 263DEG 28KT 3194 10167 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 7:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector, Midland | 3 hr |
| Apr 11, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Dawson | 62 min |
| Apr 11, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Ector, Ward, Winkler | 60 min |
| Apr 11, 7:40 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Dawson, Martin | 3 hr |
| Apr 11, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Dawson, Glasscock, Howard, Martin, Midland and 2 more | 61 min |
| Apr 11, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Ector, Pecos, Upton, Ward | 36 min |
| Apr 11, 8:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Howard | 27 min |
| Apr 11, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector, Midland, Upton | 33 min |
| Apr 11, 8:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Howard, Mitchell | 46 min |
| Apr 11, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Howard, Martin, Midland, Mitchell, Scurry and 1 more | 61 min |
| Apr 11, 8:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 4 hr |
| Apr 11, 9:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 25 min |
| Apr 11, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan, Upton | 50 min |
| Apr 11, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 35 min |
| Apr 12, 5:39 AM CDT | High Wind Warning | MAF | 14 hr | |
| Apr 12, 5:39 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | MAF | Loving, Pecos, Ward, Winkler | 14 hr |
| Apr 12, 5:43 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MAF | 14 hr |
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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.