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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2012, 8:56 PM CDT for Andrews County, Texas. It was in force for 34 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
- Jun 12, 2012, 8:56 PM CDT (01:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2012, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Andrews County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 8:58 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | E Frankel City, TX | TWO POWER POLES LEANING SSE AND A THIRD ONE SNAPPED .125 MI E OF FRANKEL CITY ON FM 1967 |
| Jun 12, 9:28 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Frankel City, TX | TELEPHONE POLES DOWN 1/4 E FRANKEL CITY. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 1015 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2690 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
102 WFUS54 KMAF 130156 TORMAF TXC003-130230- /O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0014.120613T0156Z-120613T0230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 856 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN ANDREWS COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS... * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 855 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF FRANKEL CITY...OR 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF ANDREWS... MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... FRANKEL CITY... 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 TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS. && LAT...LON 3249 10257 3219 10278 3238 10300 3252 10298 TIME...MOT...LOC 0156Z 263DEG 14KT 3244 10286 $$
1 follow-up statement
672 WWUS54 KMAF 130210 SVSMAF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 910 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 2012 TXC003-130230- /O.CON.KMAF.TO.W.0014.000000T0000Z-120613T0230Z/ ANDREWS TX- 910 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 2012 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 PM CDT FOR WESTERN ANDREWS COUNTY... AT 904 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FRANKEL CITY...OR ABOUT 18 MILES WEST OF ANDREWS... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. DAMAGING WIND HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE TORNADO INCLUDE...FRANKEL CITY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME... TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS. && LAT...LON 3249 10257 3219 10278 3238 10300 3252 10298 TIME...MOT...LOC 0209Z 290DEG 21KT 3241 10280 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 61 min |
| Jun 12, 8:00 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 2 hr |
| Jun 12, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 67 min |
| Jun 12, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 61 min |
| Jun 12, 9:35 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Andrews, Ector, Winkler | 115 min |
| Jun 12, 9:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Andrews, Ector | 27 min |
| Jun 12, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Ector | 60 min |
| Jun 12, 10:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 10:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector, Midland | 57 min |
| Jun 12, 11:41 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Midland | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Midland, Reagan, Upton | 59 min |
| Jun 13, 12:37 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Glasscock, Midland, Reagan, Upton | 113 min |
| Jun 13, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Jeff Davis, Reeves | 29 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.