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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 1986, 5:06 PM CST for Upton County, Texas. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 26, 1986, 5:06 PM CST (23:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 1986, 6:15 PM CST
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Upton County, TX
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 154 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -332 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1617 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 262306 SVRMAF TXC461-270015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 506 PM CST SAT APR 26 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS...SOUTHERN UPTON AT 500PM CST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MCCAMEY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY... AND YOU SHOULD ASK THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO RELAY YOUR SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS TO THE LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE DANGEROUS STORMS..GO TO REINFORCED SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND..LARGE HAIL..VERY HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING. REMEMBER THESE STORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 26, 4:44 PM CST, 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 435 PM CST SAT APR 26 1986 ...VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF WEST TEXAS... AT 426 PM CST SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS..SOME VERY HEAVY..WERE OCCURRING IN AN AREA 90 MILES WIDE FROM 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MONAHANS TO 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SANDERSON. HEAVIEST STORMS WERE 20 MILES EAST OF FORT STOCKTON AND 20 MILES EAST OF SANDERSON. HAIL WAS INDICATED WITH THESE STORMS. ELSEWHERE..VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING FROM 30 MILES SOUTHWEST TO 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF SNYDER. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. CONDITIONS LOOK FAVORABLE FOR FURTHER STRENGTHENING OF THESE STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO/TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 6:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 66 min |
| Apr 25, 6:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 60 min |
| Apr 26, 4:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 61 min |
Nearby
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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.