Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 15, 1986, 6:11 PM CDT for Gaines County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 15, 1986, 6:11 PM CDT (23:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 15, 1986, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 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 12:00Z, 11.2 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
- 671 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1137 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 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, Sep 15, 4:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 440 PM CDT MON SEP 15 1986 AT 425 PM CDT...VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS WERE ENCLOSED WITHIN A 170 MILE WIDE AREA FROM 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MARFA TEXAS TO 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CLOVIS NEW MEXICO. HEAVIEST ACTIVITY WAS LOCATED 20 MILES NORTH OF SEMINOLE..10 MILES NORTHWEST OF SEMINOLE..5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOBBS..AND 15 MILES WEST OF FORT STOCKTOlN. HIGHS WINDS..SMALL HAIL..LIGHTNING..AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS CAN BE EXPECTED. PLEASE SEEK SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT 5 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Sep 15, 5:38 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 535 PM CDT MON SEP 15 1986 AT 525 PM CDT...VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS WERE SACATTERED FROM SOUTH OF MARATHON TO NEAR PLAINVIEW THEN SOUTHWEST TO VAN HORN. HEAVIEST ACTIVITY WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTHEAST..AND 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF SEMINOLE..AND FROM 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOBBS NEW MEXICO TO 10 MILES EAST OF HOBBS. HIGHS WINDS..SMALL HAIL..LIGHTNING..AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS CAN BE EXPECTED. SEAGRAVES HAS REPORTED FLOODING IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 5 MILES AN HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 6:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 3 hr |
| Sep 15, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 3 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.