Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1989, 12:31 AM CDT for Howard County, Texas. It was in force for 29 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
- Jun 2, 1989, 12:31 AM CDT (05:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1989, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 12:40 AM CDT | Hail 1.75 | 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 00:00Z, 5.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.7
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 1, 8:49 PM CDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 845 PM CDT THU JUN 1 1989 ...A TORNADO WATCH UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR MOST OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF WEST TEXAS AND LEA COUNTY NEW MEXICO UNTIL 10 PM CDT... AT 830 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE SCATTERED FROM SOUTH OF FORT STOCKTON TO SOUTH OF ALPINE TO SOUTHWEST OF MARFA THEN NORTH TO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PECOS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE SCATTERED FROM STERLING CITY TO SOUTH OF GUTHRIE TO NORTH OF LUBBOCK THEN SOUTHWEST TO WEST OF TATUM NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHEAST TO NORTH OF SEMINOLE TEXAS. HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ALPINE...10 MILES EAST OF BIG SPRING...AND 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BROWNFIELD. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS...AND HIGH WINDS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 7:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Howard | 37 min |
| Jun 1, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 62 min |
| Jun 1, 9:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Dawson | 49 min |
| Jun 1, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 64 min |
| Jun 1, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 61 min |
| Jun 1, 11:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Howard | 41 min |
| Jun 2, 12:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Howard | 94 min |
| Jun 2, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 66 min |
| Jun 2, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 63 min |
| Jun 2, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Loving | 60 min |
| Jun 2, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 58 min |
| Jun 2, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Dawson | 65 min |
| Jun 2, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Howard | 64 min |
| Jun 1, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | De Baca | 33 min |
| Jun 2, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 55 min |
| Jun 2, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Chaves | 60 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1989Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989
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.