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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Apr 2, 2013, 5:42 PM CDT for Terrell County, Texas. It was in force for 33 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, 5:42 PM CDT (22:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2013, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Terrell County, TX
The radar
The Laughlin AFB radar (KDFX), 169 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:42 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 116 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.
894
WFUS54 KMAF 022242
TORMAF
TXC443-022315-
/O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0002.130402T2242Z-130402T2315Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
542 PM CDT TUE APR 2 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTH CENTRAL TERRELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...
* UNTIL 615 PM CDT
* AT 538 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER SOUTH
CENTRAL TERRELL COUNTY...OR 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DRYDEN...MOVING
EAST AT 20 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
SOUTHEASTERN 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 2979 10185 2980 10186 2979 10187 2983 10203
2991 10215 3003 10217 3010 10176 2992 10175
2978 10176 2978 10179
TIME...MOT...LOC 2242Z 279DEG 23KT 2999 10200
$$1 follow-up statement
781
WWUS54 KMAF 022306
SVSMAF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
606 PM CDT TUE APR 2 2013
TXC443-022315-
/O.CON.KMAF.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-130402T2315Z/
TERRELL TX-
606 PM CDT TUE APR 2 2013
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN TERRELL COUNTY...
AT 557 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO
DETECT A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTH CENTRAL
TERRELL COUNTY...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DRYDEN...MOVING EAST
AT 30 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE TORNADO INCLUDE...SOUTHEASTERN TERRELL
COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME... TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE
HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS.
&&
LAT...LON 2991 10200 3003 10199 3004 10176 2992 10175
2987 10175
TIME...MOT...LOC 2306Z 267DEG 25KT 2998 10187
$$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, 5:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Terrell | 27 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.