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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 31, 1986Winkler County, Texas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1986-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1986-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 3:59 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFCrane, Pecos61 min
May 31, 4:04 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFUpton56 min
May 31, 4:04 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFPecos56 min
May 31, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane, Upton62 min
May 31, 5:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFUpton66 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986

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.