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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 1986, 9:34 PM CDT for Gaines County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 20, 1986, 9:34 PM CDT (02:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 1986, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gaines 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, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 1458 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1381 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 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, Jun 20, 3:44 PM CDT, 5 hours 50 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jun 20, 7:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 745 PM CDT FRI JUN 20 1986 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT FOR WARD COUNTY AND COUNTIES WEST OF THE PECOS EXCEPT FAR WEST TEXAS... AT 727 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SCATTERED FROM THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS TO NORTH OF POST. THE HEAVIEST STORMS WERE WEST OF JAL NEW MEXICO AND NORTHWEST OF LAMESA. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE ALSO NOTED NORTH OF ROBERT LEE AND 20 MILES SOUTH OF GUTHRIE. SHOWERS CONTINUED FORM SOUTHWEST OF FORT STOCKTON TO THE NORTHERN BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK. MOVEMENT WAS SLOW AND ERRATIC. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT AND HEAVY RAINS..FLOODING OF STREAMS..ROADWAYS IN LOW WATER CROSSINGS CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE AREAS OF THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS. BE ON THE ALERT TONIGHT FOR THE DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR FURTHER STATEMTENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. REPORT FLOODING TO YOUR NEAREST LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE MIDLAND WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. YOUR REPORT MAY SAVE A LIFE.
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 8:46 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 845 PM CDT FRI JUN 20 1986 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT FOR WARD COUNTY AND COUNTIES WEST OF THE PECOS EXCEPT FAR WEST TEXAS... AT 829 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE NUMEROUS FROM THE GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS TO BROWNFIELD AND TO WEST OF GAIL. THE HEAVIEST STORMS WERE NEAR LAMESA AND WEST OF JAL. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE ALSO WIDELY SCATTERED FROM 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF LUBBOCK TO JUST WEST OF ROBERT LEE. MOVEMENT WAS SLOW AND ERRATIC. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT AND HEAVY RAINS..FLOODING OF STREAMS AND ROADWAYS IN LOW WATER CROSSINGS WILL LIKELY BE FLOODED IN THE AREAS OF THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS. BE ON THE ALERT TONIGHT FOR THE DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. REPORT FLOODING TO YOUR NEAREST LOCAL LAW ENFsORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE MIDLAND WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. YOUR REPORT MAY SAVE A LIFE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 11:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ward, Winkler | 4 hr |
| Jun 20, 11:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 4 hr |
| Jun 21, 4:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Borden, Howard, Martin | 4 hr |
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.