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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 11, 2012, 6:33 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 27 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 11, 2012, 6:33 PM MDT (00:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 2012, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Lea County, NM
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 2:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 733 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1111 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
389
WFUS54 KMAF 120033
TORMAF
NMC025-120100-
/O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0010.120412T0033Z-120412T0100Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
633 PM MDT WED APR 11 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...
* UNTIL 700 PM MDT
* AT 626 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES NORTH OF
GLADIOLA...OR 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF TATUM...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
GLADIOLA...
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 900 PM MDT
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS.
&&
LAT...LON 3318 10307 3314 10334 3334 10345 3348 10331
3353 10307
TIME...MOT...LOC 0031Z 353DEG 10KT 3338 10315
$$1 follow-up statement
980
WWUS54 KMAF 120048
SVSMAF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
648 PM MDT WED APR 11 2012
NMC025-120100-
/O.CON.KMAF.TO.W.0010.000000T0000Z-120412T0100Z/
LEA NM-
648 PM MDT WED APR 11 2012
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM MDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN LEA COUNTY...
AT 645 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO
DETECT A THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM
WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF GLADIOLA...OR ABOUT 13 MILES
NORTHEAST OF TATUM...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORMS INCLUDE...GLADIOLA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME... TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE
HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS.
&&
LAT...LON 3318 10307 3314 10334 3334 10345 3348 10331
3353 10307
TIME...MOT...LOC 0048Z 353DEG 10KT 3334 10311
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 6:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 64 min |
| Apr 11, 6:22 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Eddy | 3 hr |
| Apr 11, 7:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 64 min |
| Apr 12, 2:37 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | MAF | 11 hr | |
| Apr 12, 2:37 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | MAF | 15 hr | |
| Apr 12, 12:56 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | MAF | 31 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.