Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 29, 1986, 6:36 PM CDT for Andrews County, Texas. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 29, 1986, 6:36 PM CDT (23:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 29, 1986, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Andrews 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 1743 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 729 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 9.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 292344 COR SVRMAF TXC003-300045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 636 PM CDT MON SEP 29 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF NORTHWEST TEXAS...ANDREWS AT 625 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTH OF ANDREWS. AT 615 PM SPOTTERS REPORTED ONE INCH HAIL WITH THIS STORM WHEN IT WAS 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF GOLD SMITH. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING, PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH, YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH, LARGE HAIL, AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER, PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DON'T STAY INSIDE MOBILE HOMES.
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 29, 4:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
440 PM CDT MON SEP 29 1986
...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS
UNTIL 10 PM CDT...
AT 430 PM...VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NORTH OF STERLING
CITY AND EAST OF BROWNFIELD MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
RAINSHOWERS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED FROM SNYDER TO SAN ANGELO AND NEAR
MONOHANS AND LUBBOCK.
A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT A TORNADO CAN OCCUR IN OR CLOSE TO THE WATCH
AREA. PERSONS IN WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO SHOULD STAY ALERT
FOR ANY RAPID CHANGES IN THE WEATHER.
TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO TELEVISION AND LOCAL RADIO FOR UPDATES AND
POSSIBLE .WARNINGS.Special weather statement, Sep 29, 5:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 535 PM CDT MON SEP 29 1986 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS UNTIL 10 PM CDT... AT 525 PM...VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NORTH AND SOUTH OF LUBBOCK MOVING NORTH AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. A HEAVY THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR KERMIT. AN ISOLATED RAINSHOWER WAS SOUTH OF SWEETWATER. A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT A TORNADO_ CAN OCCUR IN OR CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO SHOULD STAY ALERT FOR ANY RAPID CHANGES IN THE WEATHER. TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO TELEVISION AND LOCAL RADIO FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
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.