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Tornado Warning 37, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
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.
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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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 59 min |
| Jun 14, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 63 min |
| Jun 14, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Jeff Davis, Pecos | 58 min |
| Jun 14, 8:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Pecos, Upton | 53 min |
| Jun 14, 10:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 50 min |
| Jun 15, 4:21 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | MAF | 16 hr | |
| Jun 15, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos, Reeves | 66 min |
| Jun 15, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 52 min |
| Jun 15, 4:53 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Pecos | 115 min |
| Jun 15, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 44 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.