Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1986, 6:44 PM CDT for Winkler County, Texas. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 1986, 6:44 PM CDT (23:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1986, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Winkler 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 590 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 31, 1:31 PM CDT, 5 hours 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 130 PM CDT SAT MAY 31 1986 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE PERMIAN BASIN..CONCHO VALLEY AND THE BIG BEND FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... AT 125 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS ARE BUILDING IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO THE CONCHO VALLEY THE BIG BEND REGION AND ALSO THE PERMAIN BASIN. SOME OF THE HEAVIEST STORMS WERE NORTH OF FORT DAVIS AND SOUTH OF GARDEN CITY. THESE STORMS CAN PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN A VERY SHORT TIME. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. RAIN IN WEST TEXAS THE PAST FEW DAYS HAS SATURATED MOST OF THE AREA AND WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL EXPECTED PERSONS IN AND AROUND LOW LYING AREAS WILL BE SUBJECT TO FLOODING AND SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION.
Special weather statement, May 31, 6:44 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 642 PM CDT SAT MAY 31 1986 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT MOST OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS TONIGHT.. AT 627 PM CDT TUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SCATTERED FROM 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARATHON TO SOUTHWEST OF EDEN AND ALSO FROM JUST SOUTH OF PECOS TO WEST OF HOBBS. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE ALSO NOTED..JUST WEST OF MONAHANS..JUST SOUTH ROF ODESSA AND NEAR SWEETWATER. A FEW SHOWERS WERE FROM RANKIN TO BIG LAKE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 3:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Crane, Pecos | 61 min |
| May 31, 4:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Upton | 56 min |
| May 31, 4:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 56 min |
| May 31, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Upton | 62 min |
| May 31, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 66 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.