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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

August 31, 1986Howard County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 31, 1986, 10:51 PM CDT for Howard County, Texas. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 31, 1986, 10:51 PM CDT (03:51 UTC)
Expired
Aug 31, 1986, 11:45 PM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Howard 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, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 82 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 1986-09-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1712 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 1986-09-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 6 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1712 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1344 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.3

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 31, 7:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor, Winkler30 min
Aug 31, 7:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMartin66 min
Aug 31, 7:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFWard, Winkler66 min
Aug 31, 7:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews58 min
Aug 31, 8:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMidland68 min
Aug 31, 9:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor55 min
Aug 31, 9:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor, Midland59 min
Aug 31, 11:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFChaves47 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.