Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1989, 2:55 PM CDT for Ector 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
- Jun 10, 1989, 2:55 PM CDT (19:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1989, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 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 10, 3:48 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | 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, 7.9 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
- 1560 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 627 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
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 10, 2:32 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 225 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 1989 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR WEST TEXAS AND AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO... AT 225 PM CDT...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL...WERE BUILDING RAPIDLY OVER MOST OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. HEAVIEST RAIN WAS LOCATED NEAR SAN ANGELO...30 MILES WEST OF SARAGOSA... AND JUST SOUTH OF THE MIDLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. MARBLE SIZE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN WAS REPORTED AT CHANNEL 9 AT 220 PM. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS 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 10, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 59 min |
| Jun 10, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 67 min |
| Jun 10, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Martin | 67 min |
| Jun 10, 4:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector | 69 min |
| Jun 10, 4:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Midland | 27 min |
| Jun 10, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 60 min |
| Jun 10, 5:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector | 63 min |
| Jun 10, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 55 min |
| Jun 10, 2:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Chaves | 63 min |
| Jun 10, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Chaves | 60 min |
| Jun 10, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | De Baca | 58 min |
| Jun 10, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 66 min |
| Jun 10, 6:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Eddy | 41 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.