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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

September 17, 2016Eddy County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this tornado warning at Sep 17, 2016, 6:21 PM MDT for Eddy County, New Mexico. It was in force for 24 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: Sep 17, 2016, 6:21 PM MDT (00:21 UTC)
Expired: Sep 17, 2016, 6:45 PM MDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 2.0 in

County Eddy County, NM

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:22 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
Sep 17, 2:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 157 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: 2085 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1172 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 310 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.1
Supercell composite: 7.2

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The text

As transmitted.

096 
WFUS54 KMAF 180021
TORMAF
NMC015-180045-
/O.NEW.KMAF.TO.W.0022.160918T0021Z-160918T0045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
621 PM MDT SAT SEP 17 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN EDDY COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO...

* UNTIL 645 PM MDT
    
* AT 621 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
  WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HALFWAY...OR 25 MILES EAST OF
  CARLSBAD...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO AND HAIL UP TO TWO INCHES IN DIAMETER. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION. 

  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. 

* THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
  EASTERN EDDY COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER
AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.
THEY WILL SEND YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN
MIDLAND.

&&

LAT...LON 3248 10376 3242 10372 3235 10372 3233 10381
      3246 10385
TIME...MOT...LOC 0021Z 344DEG 13KT 3244 10380 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...2.00IN

$$

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1 follow-up statement

716 
WWUS54 KMAF 180037
SVSMAF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
637 PM MDT SAT SEP 17 2016

NMC015-180046-
/O.EXP.KMAF.TO.W.0022.000000T0000Z-160918T0045Z/
EDDY NM-
637 PM MDT SAT SEP 17 2016

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN EDDY COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 645 PM
MDT...
        
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
MIDLAND.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING STILL REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR
EAST CENTRAL EDDY COUNTY UNTIL 715 PM MDT.

LAT...LON 3248 10376 3242 10372 3235 10372 3233 10381
      3246 10385
TIME...MOT...LOC 0031Z 344DEG 13KT 3244 10380 

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 17, 6:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy, Lea	58 min
Sep 17, 6:34 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Lea	26 min
Sep 17, 6:59 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Lea	31 min
Sep 17, 7:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	55 min
Sep 17, 7:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	60 min
Sep 17, 7:27 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Lea	33 min
Sep 17, 8:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	63 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.