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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

August 31, 1986Chaves County, New Mexico

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 31, 1986, 10:13 PM MDT for Chaves County, New Mexico. It was in force for 47 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 31, 1986, 10:13 PM MDT (04:13 UTC)
Expired
Aug 31, 1986, 11:00 PM MDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Chaves County, NM

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, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 264 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, 6:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor, Winkler30 min
Aug 31, 6:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMartin66 min
Aug 31, 6:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFWard, Winkler66 min
Aug 31, 6:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews58 min
Aug 31, 7:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMidland68 min
Aug 31, 8:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor55 min
Aug 31, 8:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor, Midland59 min
Aug 31, 9:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFHoward54 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Mexico, 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.