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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2014, 4:18 PM CDT for Reagan County, Upton County, Texas. It was in force for 27 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 24, 2014, 4:18 PM CDT (21:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2014, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Reagan County, TX, Upton County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 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 24, 1:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1629 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 705 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
025 WFUS54 KMAF 242118 TORMAF TXC383-461-242145- /O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0004.140524T2118Z-140524T2145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 418 PM CDT SAT MAY 24 2014 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WEST CENTRAL REAGAN COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS... EAST CENTRAL UPTON COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS... * UNTIL 445 PM CDT * AT 417 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER EAST CENTRAL UPTON COUNTY...OR 9 MILES NORTH OF RANKIN...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... EASTERN UPTON COUNTY... WESTERN REAGAN 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 1000 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS. && LAT...LON 3150 10162 3128 10158 3125 10198 3143 10201 TIME...MOT...LOC 2118Z 261DEG 17KT 3135 10189 $$
1 follow-up statement
049 WWUS54 KMAF 242132 RRA SVSMAF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 432 PM CDT SAT MAY 24 2014 TXC383-461-242145- /O.CON.KMAF.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-140524T2145Z/ REAGAN-UPTON- 432 PM CDT SAT MAY 24 2014 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 445 PM CDT FOR EAST CENTRAL UPTON AND WEST CENTRAL REAGAN COUNTIES... AT 430 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO DETECT A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER EXTREME EAST CENTRAL UPTON COUNTY...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF RANKIN...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE TORNADO INCLUDE...EAST CENTRAL UPTON COUNTY AND WEST CENTRAL REAGAN COUNTY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO MAY FORM AT ANY TIME... TAKE COVER NOW. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS. && LAT...LON 3144 10195 3150 10162 3128 10158 3126 10189 TIME...MOT...LOC 2132Z 258DEG 18KT 3134 10177 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 7:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Culberson | 23 min |
| May 23, 8:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Culberson | 42 min |
| May 23, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 54 min |
| May 23, 10:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Howard | 29 min |
| May 23, 10:53 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Howard, Martin, Mitchell | 112 min |
| May 24, 9:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Dawson, Martin | 46 min |
| May 24, 9:15 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Dawson | 3 hr |
| May 24, 10:46 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Borden | 3 hr |
| May 24, 11:22 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Howard | 3 hr |
| May 24, 12:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Winkler | 27 min |
| May 24, 12:30 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Mitchell, Scurry | 3 hr |
| May 24, 12:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Mitchell, Scurry | 25 min |
| May 24, 1:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Mitchell, Scurry | 27 min |
| May 24, 1:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Reeves | 32 min |
| May 24, 2:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Crane | 46 min |
| May 24, 2:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Reeves | 40 min |
| May 24, 2:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Pecos | 39 min |
| May 24, 2:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Ward | 49 min |
| May 24, 2:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Ector | 43 min |
| May 24, 3:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Crane, Upton | 42 min |
| May 24, 3:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Pecos | 50 min |
| May 24, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Ector, Martin, Midland | 63 min |
| May 24, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Reagan, Upton | 58 min |
| May 24, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Pecos | 55 min |
| May 24, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Pecos, Upton | 62 min |
| May 24, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan, Upton | 64 min |
| May 24, 4:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Terrell | 24 min |
| May 24, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Reagan, Upton | 47 min |
| May 24, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos, Reagan, Upton | 55 min |
| May 24, 5:06 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 3 hr |
| May 24, 5:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Crane, Pecos | 3 hr |
| May 24, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan, Upton | 54 min |
| May 24, 5:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 64 min |
| May 24, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 35 min |
| May 24, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 61 min |
| May 24, 6:41 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MAF | Reagan | 3 hr |
| May 24, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 59 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.