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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 12, 2012, 7:48 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
- Oct 12, 2012, 7:48 PM MDT (01:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 12, 2012, 8:15 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), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 5:22 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 1378 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1156 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
833
WFUS54 KMAF 130148
TORMAF
NMC025-130215-
/O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0017.121013T0148Z-121013T0215Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
748 PM MDT FRI OCT 12 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...
* UNTIL 815 PM MDT
* AT 746 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 16 MILES
NORTHWEST OF LOVINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
MCDONALD...
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 TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM MDT SATURDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS.
&&
LAT...LON 3331 10346 3300 10317 3290 10338 3290 10359
3310 10372
TIME...MOT...LOC 0148Z 249DEG 23KT 3305 10358
$$
KAT1 follow-up statement
915
WWUS54 KMAF 130202
SVSMAF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
802 PM MDT FRI OCT 12 2012
NMC025-130215-
/O.CON.KMAF.TO.W.0017.000000T0000Z-121013T0215Z/
LEA NM-
802 PM MDT FRI OCT 12 2012
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM MDT FOR NORTHERN
LEA COUNTY...
AT 800 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO
DETECT A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
MCDONALD...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF LOVINGTON...MOVING EAST AT
30 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE TORNADO INCLUDE...MCDONALD.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME... TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE
HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM MDT SATURDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS.
&&
LAT...LON 3331 10346 3302 10319 3293 10339 3297 10355
3310 10365
TIME...MOT...LOC 0202Z 249DEG 23KT 3308 10348
$$
KATThe office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 6:21 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Eddy | 24 min |
| Oct 12, 6:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Lea | 29 min |
| Oct 12, 7:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 66 min |
| Oct 12, 8:24 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 36 min |
| Oct 12, 8:48 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Lea | 27 min |
| Oct 12, 8:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 25 min |
| Oct 12, 9:23 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Lea | 37 min |
| Oct 13, 12:13 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Lea | 17 min |
| Oct 13, 3:15 AM MDT | High Wind Warning | MAF | Eddy | 15 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.