Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1990, 7:39 PM CDT for Andrews County, Texas. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1990, 7:39 PM CDT (00:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1990, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Andrews 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, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 1430 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2568 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 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 090040 SVRMAF TXC003-090130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 739 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST TEXAS ...EASTERN ANDREWS COUNTY AT 737 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN EASTERN ANDREWS COUNTY...ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF THE CITY OF ANDREWS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR: BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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 8, 6:39 PM CDT, 1 hour before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-090045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 638 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 1990 AT 625 PM CDT....THUNDERSTORMS...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED 20 MILES WEST OF FORT STOCKTON...AND JUST NORTH OF WINK. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED FROM NEAR HOT SPRINGS IN THE BIG BEND AREA TO NEAR BROWNFIELD. VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE HIGH WIND...HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA RADIO...LOCAL RADIO...OR TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OF WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 7:01 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
TXZ013-014-016-051-053-NMZ013-090045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 700 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 1990 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WESTERN PECOS COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 655 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED THAT THE THUNDERSTORM PREVIOUSLY LOCATED 15 MILES WEST OF FORT STOCKTON HAD DECREASED IN INTENSITY AND IS NO LONGER A SEVERE STORM. SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN MAY STILL BE EXPERIENCED WITH THIS AND OTHER THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED ACROSS WEST TEXAS EARLY THIS EVENING. IF A STORM APPROACHES OR DEVELOPES NEAR YOU...MOVE INDOORS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 7:35 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
TXZ013-014-016-051-053-NMZ013-090145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 733 PM CDT FRI JUN 8 1990 AT 725 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED 15 MILES NORTHEAST AND 10 MILES EAST OF ANDREWS TEXAS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED FROM NEAR SARAGOSA TO NEAR LAMESA AND BROWNFIELD. VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED. AND AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED WEST OF THE HOT SPRINGS AREA IN THE BIG BEND. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE HIGH WINDS...HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA RADIO...LOCAL RADIO...OR TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR 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.