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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 24, 1986Midland County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1986, 8:58 PM CDT for Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 1986, 8:58 PM CDT (01:58 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1986, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Midland 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 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 18 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1986-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1221 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1986-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1221 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2478 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 250158
SVRMAF
TXC329-250300-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
858 PM CDT SAT MAY 24 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY OF

SOUTHWEST TEXAS...MIDLAND

AT 855 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH
OF THE CITY OF MIDLAND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 15 MILES AN
HOUR.

 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 AD?VANCE WARNING.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 7:08 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFHoward67 min
May 24, 7:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines56 min
May 24, 8:16 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFHoward59 min
May 24, 8:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMartin56 min
May 24, 8:25 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFHoward50 min
May 24, 8:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines57 min
May 24, 8:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines61 min
May 24, 9:38 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFMidland67 min
May 24, 9:49 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFHoward56 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.