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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1989, 9:06 PM CDT for Glasscock County, Texas. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 1989, 9:06 PM CDT (02:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1989, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Glasscock 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, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 811 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1177 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Jun 13, 3:38 PM CDT, 5 hours 28 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 338 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 1989 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO AND A LARGE PART OF NORTHWEST TEXAS UNTIL 1000 PM CDT... AT 325 PM...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE WIDELY SCATTERED OVER THE EASTERN PERMIAN BASIN AND INTO THE CONCHO VALLEY. THESE STORMS WERE IN A 130 MILE WIDE AREA FROM NEAR SONORA TO SWEETWATER. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS NEAR GARDEN CITY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND LOCAL AREAS OF FLOODING. THE ATMOSPHERE REMAINS VERzY UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON SO STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO/TV STATION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 4:48 PM CDT, 4 hours 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 448 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 1989 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ANDREWS...REEVES... GAINES COUNTIES IN TEXAS AND LEA COUNTY IN NEW MEXICO UNTIL 1000 PM CDT... AT 427 PM...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE SCATTERED IN A 150 MILE WIDE AREA FROM THE BIG BEND THROUGH SAN ANGELO TO NEAR SWEETWATER. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS NEAR STERLING CITY. ELSEWHERE...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE WIDELY SCATTERED FROM CARLSBAD NEW MEXICO TO NEAR THE GUADALUPE PASS IN TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE HAIL...LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS ANOD HEAVY RAINS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO/TV STATION FOR FURTHER STATEMENT AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Winkler | 68 min |
| Jun 13, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 38 min |
| Jun 13, 10:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 25 min |
| Jun 13, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 57 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.