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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 31, 1986Andrews County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1986, 8:12 PM CDT for Andrews County, Texas. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 31, 1986, 8:12 PM CDT (01:12 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 1986, 9:15 PM CDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Andrews 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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 57 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 1986-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 612 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 1986-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 7 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
612 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1110 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAAOO KMAF 010112
SVRMAF
TXC003-010215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
812 PM CDT SAT MAY 31 1986
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES:
 
IN NORTHWEST TEXAS
          ..ANDREWS

AT 812 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF ANDREWS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING, PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH, LARGE HAIL, AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING.  PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER,
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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, 6:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 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
Jun 1, 1:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews66 min
Jun 1, 2:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMartin57 min
Jun 1, 3:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFHoward, Martin59 min
Jun 1, 3:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFHoward, Martin61 min
Jun 1, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews, Martin60 min
Jun 1, 6:35 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFAndrews, Gaines55 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.