Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1990, 7:44 PM CDT for Dawson County, Texas. It was in force for 61 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
- May 31, 1990, 7:44 PM CDT (00:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1990, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dawson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Dawson, 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 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 1736 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2268 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 010041 COR SVRMAF TXC115-010145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTION FOR TIMES NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 744 PM CDT THU MAY 31 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST TEXAS ...DAWSON COUNTY AT 735 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO THE WESTERN PORTION OF DAWSON COUNTY WEST OF LAMESA. MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM IS NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 7:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Crane | 57 min |
| May 31, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ward | 69 min |
| May 31, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector, Midland | 60 min |
| May 31, 8:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Dawson | 49 min |
| May 31, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 67 min |
| May 31, 9:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Upton | 62 min |
| Jun 1, 2:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane | 67 min |
| Jun 1, 3:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Crane | 56 min |
| Jun 1, 3:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 62 min |
| Jun 1, 4:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Crane, Upton | 55 min |
| Jun 1, 5:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 57 min |
| Jun 1, 6:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 57 min |
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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.