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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2014, 7:44 PM CDT for Glasscock County, Texas. It was in force for 31 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, 7:44 PM CDT (00:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2014, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Glasscock County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 3:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
942 WFUS54 KMAF 270044 TORMAF TXC173-270115- /O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0018.140527T0044Z-140527T0115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 744 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 815 PM CDT * AT 739 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR GARDEN CITY...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. SOFTBALL SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. * THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... EASTERN 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 3177 10160 3200 10159 3201 10126 3174 10126 TIME...MOT...LOC 0044Z 264DEG 16KT 3187 10137 $$
2 follow-up statements
554 WWUS54 KMAF 270100 SVSMAF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 800 PM CDT MON MAY 26 2014 TXC173-270115- /O.CON.KMAF.TO.W.0018.000000T0000Z-140527T0115Z/ GLASSCOCK- 800 PM CDT MON MAY 26 2014 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR EASTERN GLASSCOCK COUNTY... AT 758 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO DETECT A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 11 MILES EAST OF GARDEN CITY...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE TORNADO INCLUDE...EAST CENTRAL GLASSCOCK COUNTY AND EXTREME EAST CENTRAL GLASSCOCK COUNTY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME... TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS. && LAT...LON 3177 10160 3200 10159 3201 10126 3174 10126 TIME...MOT...LOC 0100Z 264DEG 16KT 3188 10129 $$
923 WWUS54 KMAF 270113 SVSMAF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 813 PM CDT MON MAY 26 2014 TXC173-270123- /O.EXP.KMAF.TO.W.0018.000000T0000Z-140527T0115Z/ GLASSCOCK- 813 PM CDT MON MAY 26 2014 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN GLASSCOCK COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 815 PM CDT... AT 813 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING HAD EXITED THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS. && LAT...LON 3177 10160 3200 10159 3201 10126 3174 10126 TIME...MOT...LOC 0113Z 264DEG 16KT 3189 10122 $$
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, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 35 min |
| 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, 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.