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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 27, 1987Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1987, 7:19 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 27, 1987, 7:19 PM CDT (00:19 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 1987, 8:15 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Pecos 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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 139 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 1987-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1337 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 1987-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 31 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
1337 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2124 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.1

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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 27, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFUpton62 min
May 27, 7:53 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFPecos67 min
May 27, 8:10 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFMidland, Upton65 min
May 27, 8:23 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFEctor67 min
May 27, 8:37 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFCrane, Pecos53 min
May 27, 11:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFUpton54 min
May 28, 6:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines67 min
May 28, 8:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews, Gaines63 min
May 28, 10:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines58 min
May 28, 10:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBorden43 min
May 28, 12:22 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFUpton38 min
May 28, 12:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGlasscock63 min
May 28, 12:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFHoward26 min
May 28, 1:05 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFHoward30 min
May 28, 3:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea54 min
May 28, 3:17 AM CDTTornado WarningMAFLea58 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.