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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2015, 7:50 PM MDT for Lea County, New Mexico. It was in force for 25 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 29, 2015, 7:50 PM MDT (01:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2015, 8:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Observed
- Hail
- 1.0 in
County Lea County, NM
The radar
The Cannon AFB radar (KFDX), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:50 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 29, 6:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 1700 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1643 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
956
WFUS54 KMAF 300150
TORMAF
NMC025-300215-
/O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0026.150530T0150Z-150530T0215Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
750 PM MDT FRI MAY 29 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTH CENTRAL LEA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...
* UNTIL 815 PM MDT
* AT 749 PM MDT...A CONFIRMED TORNADO WAS LOCATED 9 MILES WEST OF
TATUM...AND MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH.
HAZARD...DAMAGING TORNADO AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...WEATHER SPOTTERS CONFIRMED TORNADO.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE IS
LIKELY.
* THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTH CENTRAL LEA
COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TO REPEAT...A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND. TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID
WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE
CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3329 10333 3323 10333 3325 10351 3330 10351
TIME...MOT...LOC 0151Z 277DEG 4KT 3327 10347
TORNADO...OBSERVED
HAIL...1.00IN
$$
44The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 7:11 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Lea | 49 min |
| May 29, 7:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 38 min |
| May 29, 7:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 62 min |
| May 29, 8:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 54 min |
| May 29, 8:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 38 min |
| May 29, 8:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 63 min |
| May 29, 9:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 58 min |
| May 30, 1:49 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Chaves | 56 min |
| May 30, 2:31 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 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.