Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 1990, 6:39 PM CDT for Reeves County, Texas. It was in force for 66 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
- Apr 22, 1990, 6:39 PM CDT (23:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 1990, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Reeves 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 6:40 PM CDT | Hail 2 | Reeves, 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 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 222340 SVRMAF TXC389-230045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 639 PM CDT SUN APR 22 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS ...SOUTHERN REEVES COUNTY AT 635 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF BALMORHEA TEXAS. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. AT 633 PM CDT THE PUBLIC REPORTED 1/2 TO 1 INCH HAIL AT BALMORHEA. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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 22, 4:39 PM CDT, 2 hours before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-222245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 439 PM CDT SUN APR 22 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN NEW MEXICO AND A SMALL PART OF WEST TEXAS UNTIL 10PM CDT... AT 425 PM...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN A 15 MILE WIDE AREA FROM CARLSBAD NEW MEXICO TO FORT DAVIS TEXAS. ALSO...AN ISOLATED RAIN SHOWER HAD DEVELOPED 25 MILES WEST OF LUBBOCK. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Apr 22, 5:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-222345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 527 PM CDT SUN APR 22 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN NEW MEXICO AND A SMALL PART OF WEST TEXAS UNTIL 10PM CDT... AT 525 PM...THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED IN A 25 MILE WIDE AREA FROM CARLSBAD NEW MEXICO TO THE BIG BEND NATIONAL PART IN TEXAS. ELSEWHERE...AN ISOLATED RAIN SHOWER WAS 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAMESA WHILE ANOTHER RAIN SHOWER WAS 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF LUBBOCK. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WAR&NINGS.
Special weather statement, Apr 22, 6:30 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-230045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 630 PM CDT SUN APR 22 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN NEW MEXICO AND A SMALL PART OF WEST TEXAS UNTIL 10PM CDT... AT 625 PM...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE WIDELY SCATTERED IN A 80 MILE WIDE AREA FROM CARLSBAD NEW MEXICO TO THE BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK IN TEXAS. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS NEAR CARLSBAD NEW MEXICO AND 20 MILES NORTH OF FORT DAVIS TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. VERY HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. MOVE INDOORS IF A STORM SHOULD MOVE INTO YOUR AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.