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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 25, 1987Ector County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1987, 9:36 AM CDT for Ector County, Texas. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 25, 1987, 9:36 AM CDT (14:36 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 1987, 10:30 AM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Ector 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, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 34 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 12:00Z on 1987-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1266 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 12:00Z on 1987-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 80 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1266 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-162 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1039 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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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
May 25, 10:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor57 min
May 25, 4:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFWard59 min
May 25, 5:03 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFLoving, Ward42 min
May 25, 5:51 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFWard99 min
May 25, 5:51 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFWard39 min
May 25, 6:36 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFWard54 min
May 25, 6:57 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFPecos63 min
May 24, 7:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy47 min
May 25, 6:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea57 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.