Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1988, 6:10 PM CDT for Ector County, Midland County, Upton County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 19, 1988, 6:10 PM CDT (23:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 1988, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ector County, TX, Midland County, TX, Upton County, TX
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 6:50 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Midland, TX |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 28 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
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 49 min |
| May 18, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 66 min |
| May 18, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 48 min |
| May 19, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 64 min |
| May 19, 6:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Andrews | 48 min |
| May 19, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector, Midland | 65 min |
| May 19, 1:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Eddy | 40 min |
| May 19, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Chaves | 60 min |
| May 19, 2:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Eddy | 55 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.