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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 16, 2011, 5:13 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 32 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
- Sep 16, 2011, 5:13 PM CDT (22:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 2011, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Pecos County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:13 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 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 272 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 722 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
267
WFUS54 KMAF 162213
TORMAF
TXC371-162245-
/O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0009.110916T2213Z-110916T2245Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
513 PM CDT FRI SEP 16 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEAST PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...
* UNTIL 545 PM CDT
* AT 508 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER EXTREME
SOUTHWEST PECOS COUNTY...OR 27 MILES EAST OF FORT DAVIS...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
OPEN COUNTRY OF SOUTHWESTERN PECOS 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.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE... SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT... SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT... DITCH OR
LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
&&
LAT...LON 3085 10343 3078 10318 3072 10321 3060 10333
3065 10341 3069 10346 3077 10357
TIME...MOT...LOC 2212Z 267DEG 8KT 3074 10347
$$1 follow-up statement
976
WWUS54 KMAF 162222
SVSMAF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
522 PM CDT FRI SEP 16 2011
TXC371-162245-
/O.CON.KMAF.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-110916T2245Z/
PECOS TX-
522 PM CDT FRI SEP 16 2011
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR SOUTHWEST
PECOS COUNTY...
AT 518 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
DETECT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER
EXTREME SOUTHWEST PECOS COUNTY...OR 27 MILES EAST OF FORT DAVIS...
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE TORNADO INCLUDE...OPEN COUNTRY OF
EXTREME SOUTHWEST CENTRAL PECOS COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME... TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE
HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS.
IN ADDITION TENNIS BALL SIZE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE... SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT... SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT... DITCH OR
LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
&&
LAT...LON 3085 10343 3078 10318 3072 10321 3060 10333
3065 10341 3069 10346 3077 10357
TIME...MOT...LOC 2220Z 267DEG 8KT 3072 10343
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis | 43 min |
| Sep 16, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 55 min |
| Sep 16, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Brewster, Jeff Davis, Pecos | 61 min |
| Sep 16, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Pecos | 59 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.