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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 14, 1989Howard County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1989, 2:59 PM CDT for Howard County, Texas. It was in force for 61 min. 2 reports 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 14, 1989, 2:59 PM CDT (19:59 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 1989, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Howard 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 14, 3:42 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Howard, TX
May 14, 4:05 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Howard, 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 82 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 141958
SVRMAF
TXC227-142100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
259 PM CDT SUN MAY 14 1989
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN NORTHWEST TEXAS
          ...HOWARD
 
AT 3 PM CDT SPOTTERS IN BIG SPRING WERE REPORTING MARBLE SIZE HAIL.
THE THUNDERSTORMS CAUSING THIS IS GROWING LARGER AND STRONGER.
 
LARGE HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED
DURING THE NEXT HOUR.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORINADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	60 min
May 14, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	60 min
May 14, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	65 min
May 14, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson	44 min
May 14, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Midland	61 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.