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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 26, 2014Glasscock County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2014, 7:10 PM CDT for Glasscock County, Texas. It was in force for 35 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: May 26, 2014, 7:10 PM CDT (00:10 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2014, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Glasscock County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 26, 3:03 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 75 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 744 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -84 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1490 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 213 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 241 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 4.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

990 
WFUS54 KMAF 270010
TORMAF
TXC173-270045-
/O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0017.140527T0010Z-140527T0045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
710 PM CDT MON MAY 26 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN GLASSCOCK COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 707 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR GARDEN     
  CITY...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. SOFTBALL SIZE HAIL IS CURRENTLY      
  BEING REPORTED NORTH OF GARDEN CITY.

* THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
  GARDEN CITY...

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 1100 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS.

&&

LAT...LON 3204 10128 3167 10128 3187 10160 3200 10161
TIME...MOT...LOC 0010Z 285DEG 24KT 3189 10150

$$

1 follow-up statement

467 
WWUS54 KMAF 270022
SVSMAF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
722 PM CDT MON MAY 26 2014

TXC173-270045-
/O.CON.KMAF.TO.W.0017.000000T0000Z-140527T0045Z/
GLASSCOCK-
722 PM CDT MON MAY 26 2014

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR EASTERN
GLASSCOCK COUNTY...

AT 721 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS CONTINUED TO 
DETECT A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADO.  THIS STORM
WAS LOCATED NEAR GARDEN CITY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE TORNADO INCLUDE...EAST CENTRAL
GLASSCOCK 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 TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS.

&&

LAT...LON 3204 10128 3167 10128 3187 10160 3200 10161
TIME...MOT...LOC 0022Z 299DEG 20KT 3186 10141

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 7:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Midland	3 hr
May 26, 7:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Howard	31 min
May 26, 7:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MAF	Midland	52 min
May 26, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Midland	33 min
May 26, 7:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Glasscock	31 min
May 26, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Reagan	62 min
May 26, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Midland, Reagan, Upton	64 min
May 26, 8:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Reagan	34 min
May 26, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Reagan	59 min
May 27, 5:32 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	MAF	Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines and 13 more	4 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.