Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 1986, 1:54 PM CDT for Andrews County, Texas. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 1986, 1:54 PM CDT (18:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 1986, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 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 12:00Z, 6.9 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
- 47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1189 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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, Jun 1, 8:34 AM CDT, 5 hours 20 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jun 1, 9:36 AM CDT, 4 hours 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 935 AM CDT SUN JUN 1 1986 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TODAY FOR THE PERMAIN BASIN..CONCHO VALLEY AND AND THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS... AT 930 AM CDT...AN ISOLATED HEAVY THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST NORTH OF HOBBS NEW MEXICO. MOVEMENT WAS UNDETERMINED. OTHER SHOWERS WERE INDICATED FROM NEAR ROBERT LEE TO THE SNYDER AREA TO NEAR SAN ANGELO. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHr AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 10:27 AM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1030
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 10:31 AM CDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1030 AM CDT SUN JUN 1 1986 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TODAY FOR THE PERMAIN BASIN..CONCHO VALLEY AND AND THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS... AT 1025 AM CDT...RAINSHOWERS WERE SCATTERED FROM EAST OF STERLING CITY TO NORTH OF BALLINGER TO 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF SNYDER. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 10:48 AM CDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1047 AM CDT SUN JUN 1 1986 THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE PERMAIN BASIN HAS BEEN CANCELLED. AT 1025 AM CDT...RAINSHOWERS WERE SCATTERED FROM EAST OF STERLING CITY TO NORTH OF BALLINGER TO 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF SNYDER. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 63 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 |
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.