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the center of the surface low. The 850 hPa wind at Midlandwas 17 m s-2, but lighter winds covered the remainderof the region. A short-wave trough in the 500 hPa flowwas approaching from the west. Intense thunderstorms developed during earlymorning near the surface low. The first tornadotouched down just before 0700 CST west-southwest ofAbilene. Shortly thereafter, a multiple-vortex tornadostruck Swee. twater, causing one fatality. As the uppertrough moved eastward over the unstable air mass
the center of the surface low. The 850 hPa wind at Midlandwas 17 m s-2, but lighter winds covered the remainderof the region. A short-wave trough in the 500 hPa flowwas approaching from the west. Intense thunderstorms developed during earlymorning near the surface low. The first tornadotouched down just before 0700 CST west-southwest ofAbilene. Shortly thereafter, a multiple-vortex tornadostruck Swee. twater, causing one fatality. As the uppertrough moved eastward over the unstable air mass
