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Tornado Warning 37, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 14, 2009Brewster County, Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 2009, 9:21 PM CDT for Brewster County, Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 24 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
Jun 14, 2009, 9:21 PM CDT (02:21 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 2009, 9:45 PM CDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Brewster County, TX, Pecos County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 191 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:23 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 191 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2009-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2009-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 29 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3669 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMAF 150221
TORMAF
TXC043-371-150245-
/O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0037.090615T0221Z-090615T0245Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
921 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 2009

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WEST CENTRAL PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...
  NORTH CENTRAL BREWSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...

* UNTIL 945 PM CDT

* AT 920 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 12 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF HOVEY...OR 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF ALPINE...MOVING EAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
  HOVEY...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3064 10326 3051 10318 3038 10318 3048 10363
      3056 10357
TIME...MOT...LOC 0221Z 265DEG 17KT 3050 10351

$$
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS54 KMAF 150238
SVSMAF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
938 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 2009

TXC043-371-150245-
/O.CON.KMAF.TO.W.0037.000000T0000Z-090615T0245Z/
PECOS TX-BREWSTER TX-
938 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 2009

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR NORTH
CENTRAL BREWSTER AND WEST CENTRAL PECOS COUNTIES...

AT 937 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO
DETECT A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS STORM 
WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOVEY...OR ABOUT 18 MILES 
NORTHEAST OF ALPINE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...HOVEY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 3064 10326 3051 10318 3038 10318 3048 10363
      3056 10357
TIME...MOT...LOC 0238Z 265DEG 17KT 3051 10341

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 7:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos59 min
Jun 14, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos63 min
Jun 14, 8:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster, Jeff Davis, Pecos58 min
Jun 14, 8:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFPecos3 hr
Jun 14, 9:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane, Pecos, Upton53 min
Jun 14, 10:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster50 min
Jun 15, 4:21 AM CDTRed Flag WarningMAF16 hr
Jun 15, 3:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos, Reeves66 min
Jun 15, 4:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos52 min
Jun 15, 4:53 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMAFPecos115 min
Jun 15, 5:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos44 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.