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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 1990, 7:01 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 19, 1990, 7:01 PM CDT (00:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 1990, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pecos 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, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 883 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1180 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 200002 SVRMAF TXC371-200100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 701 PM CDT THU APR 19 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS ...SOUTHEASTERN PECOS COUNTY AT 7 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES SOUTH OF FORT STOCKTON MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. AT 645 PM CDT A WEATHER SPOTTER WAS REPORTING PEA TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM AS WELL AS HEAVY RAIN. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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 19, 4:31 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-192230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 429 PM CDT THU APR 19 1990 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND LEA COUNTY NEW MEXICO UNTIL 1000 PM CDT (900 PM MDT)... AT 425 PM CDT...AN AREA OF WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...EXTENDED ACROSS BREWSTER AND PECOS COUNTIES. HEAVY RAINFALL WAS INDICATED 15 MILES SOUTH AND 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT STOCKTON. AN AREA OF WIDELY SCATTERED RAIN SHOWERS WAS LOCATED OVER THE EASTERN PERMIAN BASIN. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Apr 19, 5:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-192330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 532 PM CDT THU APR 19 1990 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND LEA COUNTY NEW MEXICO UNTIL 1000 PM CDT (900 PM MDT)... AT 525 PM CDT...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED 20 MILES SOUTH OF FORT STOCKTON. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. AN AREA OF WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN... EXTENDED FROM 20 MILES WEST OF BALMORHEA TO 20 MILES WEST OF SANDERSON. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. AN AREA OF WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED OVER HOWARD AND MITCHELL COUNTIES. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Apr 19, 6:33 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-200030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 632 PM CDT THU APR 19 1990 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND LEA COUNTY NEW MEXICO UNTIL 1000 PM CDT (900 PM MDT)... AT 625 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED 15 TO 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT STOCKTON. AN AREA OF WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW WITH HEAVY RAIN... EXTENDED FROM 20 MILES EAST OF VAN HORN TO NEAR IRAAN. ANOTHER AREA OF WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR STANTON INTO THE SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH PLAINS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR FURTHER UPDA]TES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
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.