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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2012, 9:48 PM CDT for Andrews County, Ector County, Texas. It was in force for 27 min. 1 report 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, 9:48 PM CDT (02:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2012, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Andrews County, TX, Ector County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:51 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 10:16 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 62 | 2 Ene Goldsmith, TX |
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 |
| Jun 12, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 40 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.
665 WFUS54 KMAF 130248 TORMAF TXC003-135-130315- /O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0015.120613T0248Z-120613T0315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 948 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN ECTOR COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS... SOUTH CENTRAL ANDREWS COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS... * UNTIL 1015 PM CDT * AT 946 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF GOLDSMITH...OR 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ANDREWS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... GOLDSMITH... 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. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM CDT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR WEST TEXAS. && LAT...LON 3209 10240 3192 10266 3205 10278 3221 10273 TIME...MOT...LOC 0248Z 301DEG 16KT 3208 10270 $$
1 follow-up statement
901 WWUS54 KMAF 130301 SVSMAF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1001 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 2012 TXC003-135-130315- /O.CON.KMAF.TO.W.0015.000000T0000Z-120613T0315Z/ ECTOR TX-ANDREWS TX- 1001 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 2012 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1015 PM CDT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL ANDREWS AND NORTHWESTERN ECTOR COUNTIES... AT 1000 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO DETECT A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GOLDSMITH...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF WEST ODESSA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE TORNADO INCLUDE...GOLDSMITH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME... TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM CDT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR WEST TEXAS. && LAT...LON 3209 10240 3192 10266 3205 10278 3221 10273 TIME...MOT...LOC 0301Z 306DEG 19KT 3202 10262 $$
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, 8:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Andrews | 34 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, 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.