Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1989, 6:45 PM CDT for Ector County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min. 3 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
- Jun 3, 1989, 6:45 PM CDT (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1989, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ector 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 3, 6:47 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Ector, TX | |
| Jun 3, 7:10 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Ector, TX | |
| Jun 3, 7:51 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Ector, 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 34 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
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 369 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
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 3, 1:40 PM CDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 135 PM CDT SAT JUN 3 1989 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT SOUTH PLAINS...PERMIAN BASIN...BIG BEND THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT... AT 128 PM CDT...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED 20 MILES EAST OF ANDREWS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE IN AN AREA 80 MILES WIDE FROM 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF SEMINOLE TO 30 MILES EAST OF OZONA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. STAY TUNUED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 1:42 PM CDT, 5 hours 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 135 PM CDT SAT JUN 3 1989 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT SOUTH PLAINS...PERMIAN BASIN...BIG BEND THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT... AT 128 PM CDT...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED 20 MILES EAST OF ANDREWS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE IN AN AREA 80 MILES WIDE FROM 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF SEMINOLE TO 30 MILES EAST OF OZONA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. STAY TUNUED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 2:42 PM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 135 PM CDT SAT JUN 3 1989 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT SOUTH PLAINS...PERMIAN BASIN...BIG BEND...PANHANDLE AND CONCHO VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT... AT 231 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL WERE LOCATED BETWEEN LAMESA AND BIG SPRING...ALSO NEAR SAN ANGELO AND STERLING CITY. THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING NEAR OZONA AND WEST OF LUBBOCK. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. STAY TUNUED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 4:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 442 PM CDT SAT JUN 3 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MUCH OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO UNTIL 10 PM CDT... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT SOUTH PLAINS...PERMIAN BASIN...BIG BEND...PANHANDLE AND CONCHO VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT... AT 430 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...CONTINUED OVER PARTS OF WEST TEXAS FROM TAHOKA TO NORTH OF LUBBOCK AND FROM WINK TO MONAHANS EXTENDING SOUTHWEST TO NORTH OF FORT DAVIS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED FROM SOUTH OF SAN ANGELO TO ABILENE AND OVER THE BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK. MOVEMENT WAS GENERALLY EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 56 min |
| Jun 3, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ward | 60 min |
| Jun 3, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 62 min |
| Jun 3, 5:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Crane | 67 min |
| Jun 3, 6:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Crane | 68 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.