Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1986, 4:45 PM CDT for Gaines County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 1986, 4:45 PM CDT (21:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1986, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gaines 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 676 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 774 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, May 29, 2:45 PM CDT, 2 hours before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 240 PM CDT THU MAY 29 1986 ...VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTH PLAINS... AT 230 PM CDT VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURING 20 MILES EAST AND 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF SNYDER..15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LUBBOCK..VICINITY OF TATUM NEW MEXICO..AND 5 MILES WEST OF BALMORHEA. ELSEWHERE...WIDELY SCATTERED RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURING OVER WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. MOVEMENT WAS EAST 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.
Special weather statement, May 29, 3:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 340 PM CDT THU MAY 29 1986 ...VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTH PLAINS... AT 330 PM CDT VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURING FROM 25 MILES NORTH TO 25 MILES EAST OF SNYDER..15 MILES SOUTH OF LUBBOCK..10 MILES SOUTH TO 20 MILES EAST OF TATUM NEW MEXICO..AND 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PECOS. ELSEWHERE...WIDELY SCATTERED RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURING OVER WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. MOVEMENT WAS EAST 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 61 min |
| May 29, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 58 min |
| May 29, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson, Gaines | 55 min |
| May 29, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Dawson, Gaines | 33 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.