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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 31, 1986, 6:18 PM CDT for Ector County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 31, 1986, 6:18 PM CDT (23:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 1986, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ector 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 34 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
- 670 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 744 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 5:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Dawson, Gaines | 66 min |
| Aug 31, 6:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Dawson, Gaines, Martin | 58 min |
| Aug 31, 6:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Andrews | 58 min |
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.