Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 1990, 7:10 PM CDT for Crane County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 1990, 7:10 PM CDT (00:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 1990, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crane 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, 0.2 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
- 249 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3685 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 160020 SVRMAF TXC103-160115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 710 PM CDT SUN APR 15 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS ...CRANE COUNTY AT 700 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN CRANE COUNTY 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE CITY OF CRANE. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.6
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, Apr 15, 5:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
TXZ013-014-016-051-053-NMZ013-152330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 535 PM CDT SUN APR 15 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER PORTIONS OF WEST TEXAS... AT 530 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED 10 MILES NORTH AND NORTHEAST OF SWEETWATER AND 25 MILES EAST OF FORT STOCKTON. WIDELY SCATTERED RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN AN AREA 140 MILES WIDE FROM 45 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LUBBOCK TO BIG BEND. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR FURTHER STATMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 58 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.