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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 1:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 66 min |
| Jun 1, 2:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 57 min |
| Jun 1, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard, Martin | 59 min |
| Jun 1, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard, Martin | 61 min |
| Jun 1, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Martin | 60 min |
| Jun 1, 6:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 55 min |
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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.