Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 2, 1986, 8:12 PM CDT for Ector County, Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 2, 1986, 8:12 PM CDT (01:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 2, 1986, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ector County, TX, Midland 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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 12 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
- 909 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1063 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAAOO KMAF 030120 COR
SVRMAF
TXC135-329-030215-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING..CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
812 PM CDT THU OCT 2 1986
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES:
IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
..EASTERN ECTOR..MIDLAND
AT 810 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING THROUGH EASTERN ODESSA
INTO WESTERN MIDLAND. WINDS OF 69 MPH HAVE ALREADY BEEN OBSERVED AT
THE MIDLAND WEATHER OFFICE.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH,
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL, DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROO+M ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.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, Oct 2, 2:31 PM CDT, 5 hours 41 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 235 PM CDT THU OCT 2 1986 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE PERMAIN BASIN..SOUTH PLAINS.. THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...AND FOR THE CONCHO VALLEY..FAR WEST TEXAS.. AND THE PECOS VALLEY TONIGHT.. AT 225 PM CDT..SCATTERED VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN THE SOUTH PLAINS JUST SOUTH AND EAST OF LUBBOCK. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS BETWEEN FORT STOCKTON AND SANDERSON. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. VERY HEAVY RAIN..FREQUENT LIGHTNING..STRONG GUSTY WINDS..AND SOME SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS. STREET FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED IN MANY, LOCAL AREAS. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION THIS MORNING DURING TO HIGH WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS.
Special weather statement, Oct 2, 2:41 PM CDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 235 PM CDT THU OCT 2 1986 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE PERMAIN BASIN..SOUTH PLAINS.. THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...AND FOR THE CONCHO VALLEY..FAR WEST TEXAS.. AND THE PECOS VALLEY TONIGHT.. AT 225 PM CDT..SCATTERED VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN THE SOUTH PLAINS JUST SOUTH AND EAST OF LUBBOCK. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS BETWEEN FORT STOCKTON AND SANDERSON. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. VERY HEAVY RAIN..FREQUENT LIGHTNING..STRONG GUSTY WINDS..AND SOME SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS. STREET FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED IN 6MANY LOCAL AREAS. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION DUE TO HIGH WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS.
Special weather statement, Oct 2, 3:29 PM CDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 335 PM CDT THU OCT 2 1986 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE PERMAIN BASIN..SOUTH PLAINS.. THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...AND FOR THE CONCHO VALLEY..FAR WEST TEXAS.. AND THE PECOS VALLEY TONIGHT.. AT 325 PM CDT..SCATTERED VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN THE SOUTH PLAINS IN THE LUBBOCK AREA. OTHER VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE JUST WEST OF GOLDSMITH AND BETWEEN FORT STOCKTON AND SANDERSON. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. VERY HEAVY RAIN..FREQUENT LIGHTNING..STRONG GUSTY WINDS..AND SOME SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS. STREET FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED IN MANY LOCAL AREAS. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION DUE TO HIGH WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS.
Special weather statement, Oct 2, 4:37 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 436 PM CDT THU OCT 2 1986 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE PERMAIN BASIN..SOUTH PLAINS.. THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...AND FOR THE CONCHO VALLEY..FAR WEST TEXAS.. AND THE PECOS VALLEY TONIGHT.. AT 427 PM CDT..SCATTERED VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS PARTS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS FROM NORTHEAST OF LUBBOCK AND EXTENDED INTO SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO NORTH OF HOBBS. OTHER SCATTERED VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED OVER THE PERMIAN BASIN AND SOUTHWEST TEXAS FROM NORTHWEST OF MIDLAND TO GUADALUPE PASS EXTENDING ALONG THE PECOS RIVER TO IRAAN. THE HEAVIEST STORMS WERE NORTH OF GOLDSMITH AND NORTH OF KERMIT. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. VERY HEAVY RAIN..FREQUENT LIGHTNING..STRONG GUSTY WINDS..AND SOME SMALL HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS. STREET FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED IN MANY LOCAL AREAS. O MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION DUE TO HIGH WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 68 min |
| Oct 2, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 68 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 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.