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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 2, 2013, 5:18 PM CDT for Terrell County, Texas. It was in force for 27 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
- Apr 2, 2013, 5:18 PM CDT (22:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2013, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Terrell County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 201 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 5:42 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | 10 Se Dryden, TX | DIME TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED BETWEEN 530 AND 600 PM... ASSIGNED REPORT TIME BASED ON RADAR |
| Apr 2, 5:50 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | 10 Se Dryden, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 1695 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 523 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
148
WFUS54 KMAF 022218
TORMAF
TXC443-022245-
/O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0001.130402T2218Z-130402T2245Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
518 PM CDT TUE APR 2 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL TERRELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...
* UNTIL 545 PM CDT
* AT 515 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES WEST OF
DRYDEN...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
DRYDEN...
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 SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS.
&&
LAT...LON 3021 10201 2994 10191 2992 10231 3002 10235
3008 10234
TIME...MOT...LOC 2218Z 262DEG 23KT 3003 10220
$$1 follow-up statement
808
WWUS54 KMAF 022233
SVSMAF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
533 PM CDT TUE APR 2 2013
TXC443-022245-
/O.CON.KMAF.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-130402T2245Z/
TERRELL TX-
533 PM CDT TUE APR 2 2013
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL
TERRELL COUNTY...
AT 529 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO
DETECT A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 1 MILE SOUTH OF DRYDEN...
MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE TORNADO INCLUDE...SOUTH CENTRAL
TERRELL COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME...TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE
HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS.
&&
LAT...LON 3021 10201 2994 10191 2992 10231 3002 10235
3008 10234
TIME...MOT...LOC 2233Z 274DEG 21KT 2998 10208
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 60 min |
| Apr 1, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Pecos | 66 min |
| Apr 1, 8:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Upton | 29 min |
| Apr 2, 2:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Brewster | 33 min |
| Apr 2, 2:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Brewster | 24 min |
| Apr 2, 3:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Brewster | 30 min |
| Apr 2, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 56 min |
| Apr 2, 3:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Brewster | 51 min |
| Apr 2, 3:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Terrell | 27 min |
| Apr 2, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 59 min |
| Apr 2, 4:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Pecos, Terrell | 53 min |
| Apr 2, 4:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Terrell | 29 min |
| Apr 2, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 55 min |
| Apr 2, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 52 min |
| Apr 2, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster, Terrell | 53 min |
| Apr 2, 5:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Terrell | 33 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.