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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 2013, 7:34 PM CDT for Terrell County, Texas. It was in force for 26 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
- Jun 1, 2013, 7:34 PM CDT (00:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2013, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Terrell County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 190 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 3747 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1964 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
885 WFUS54 KMAF 020034 TORMAF TXC443-020100- /O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0005.130602T0034Z-130602T0100Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 734 PM CDT SAT JUN 1 2013 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL TERRELL COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS... * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 732 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER CENTRAL TERRELL COUNTY...OR 19 MILES NORTH OF DRYDEN...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... CENTRAL TERRELL COUNTY... SH 349... 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 100 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWEST TEXAS. && LAT...LON 3015 10190 3013 10221 3039 10218 3039 10197 TIME...MOT...LOC 0034Z 359DEG 20KT 3030 10207 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 61 min |
| Jun 1, 8:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | 24 min | |
| Jun 1, 8:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Brewster | 27 min |
| Jun 1, 8:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Terrell | 24 min |
| Jun 2, 5:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Jeff Davis | 23 min |
| Jun 2, 5:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Jeff Davis | 30 min |
| Jun 2, 6:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Jeff Davis | 45 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.