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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 19, 1988Upton County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1988, 5:11 PM CDT for Upton County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 19, 1988, 5:11 PM CDT (22:11 UTC)
Expired
May 19, 1988, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Upton 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 66 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 1988-05-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 11 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 1988-05-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 6 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
11 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-260 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1277 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 192212
SVRMAF
TXC461-192315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
511 PM CDT THU MAY 19 1988
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
          ...SOUTHERN UPTON
 
AT 510 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TOWARD MCCAMEY IN SOUTHERN
UPTON COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS MCCAMEY AND TOWARD RANKIN
DURING THE NEXT HOUR.
 
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 ROOM ON THE LOWELST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 18, 7:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReeves49 min
May 18, 8:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReeves66 min
May 18, 9:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReeves48 min
May 19, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor, Midland, Upton65 min
May 19, 6:12 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFAndrews48 min
May 19, 6:25 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFEctor, Midland65 min

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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.