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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2014, 8:56 PM CDT for Glasscock County, Reagan County, Texas. It was in force for 34 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, 8:56 PM CDT (01:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2014, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Glasscock County, TX, Reagan County, TX
The radar
The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:57 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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 92 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.
995
WFUS54 KMAF 270156
TORMAF
TXC173-383-270230-
/O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0019.140527T0156Z-140527T0230Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
856 PM CDT MON MAY 26 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN GLASSCOCK COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...
NORTHEASTERN REAGAN COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS...
* UNTIL 930 PM CDT
* AT 850 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER
NORTHEASTERN REAGAN COUNTY...OR 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GARDEN
CITY...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE
INDICATED .
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME... TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE
HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS.
IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO... THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. SEEK SAFE
SHELTER NOW.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS.
&&
LAT...LON 3153 10144 3172 10142 3172 10126 3153 10127
3152 10126 3149 10126
TIME...MOT...LOC 0155Z 280DEG 24KT 3159 10131
$$1 follow-up statement
735
WWUS54 KMAF 270207
SVSMAF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
907 PM CDT MON MAY 26 2014
TXC173-383-270217-
/O.CAN.KMAF.TO.W.0019.000000T0000Z-140527T0230Z/
GLASSCOCK-REAGAN-
907 PM CDT MON MAY 26 2014
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN REAGAN AND SOUTHEASTERN
GLASSCOCK COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
AT 907 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT
THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING HAD EXITED THE WARNED
AREA. THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING IS CANCELLED. A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN REAGAN COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS.
&&
LAT...LON 3153 10144 3172 10142 3172 10126 3153 10127
3152 10126 3149 10126
TIME...MOT...LOC 0207Z 280DEG 24KT 3158 10122
$$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, 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, 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.