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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Oct 12, 2012, 8:24 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 36 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, 8:24 PM MDT (02:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 12, 2012, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Lea County, NM
The radar
The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:25 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, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 160 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.
797
WFUS54 KMAF 130224
TORMAF
NMC025-130300-
/O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0018.121013T0224Z-121013T0300Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
824 PM MDT FRI OCT 12 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...
* UNTIL 900 PM MDT
* AT 823 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR MCDONALD...
OR 10 MILES NORTH OF LOVINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
MCDONALD...
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 TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM MDT SATURDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS.
&&
LAT...LON 3304 10306 3299 10325 3301 10344 3315 10351
3332 10306
TIME...MOT...LOC 0224Z 253DEG 26KT 3308 10337
$$
KAT2 follow-up statements
064
WWUS54 KMAF 130238
SVSMAF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
838 PM MDT FRI OCT 12 2012
NMC025-130300-
/O.CON.KMAF.TO.W.0018.000000T0000Z-121013T0300Z/
LEA NM-
838 PM MDT FRI OCT 12 2012
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT FOR EAST
CENTRAL LEA COUNTY...
AT 832 PM MDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A BRIEF TORNADO. THIS TORNADO
WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTH OF MCDONALD...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF
LOVINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE TORNADO INCLUDE...GLADIOLA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME... TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE
HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM MDT SATURDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS.
&&
LAT...LON 3304 10306 3299 10325 3303 10338 3318 10341
3321 10335 3332 10306
TIME...MOT...LOC 0235Z 253DEG 26KT 3310 10328
$$
KAT143
WWUS54 KMAF 130253
SVSMAF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
853 PM MDT FRI OCT 12 2012
NMC025-130302-
/O.EXP.KMAF.TO.W.0018.000000T0000Z-121013T0300Z/
LEA NM-
853 PM MDT FRI OCT 12 2012
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL LEA COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 900
PM MDT...
AT 852 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT
THE ROTATION WITHIN THE STORM HAS WEAKENED THEREFOR THE TORNADO
WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS
WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM MDT SATURDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS.
&&
LAT...LON 3304 10306 3299 10325 3303 10338 3318 10341
3321 10335 3332 10306
TIME...MOT...LOC 0252Z 253DEG 26KT 3317 10323
$$
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, 7:48 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 27 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.