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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 1990, 4:59 PM CDT for Crane County, Texas. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 18, 1990, 4:59 PM CDT (21:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 1990, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 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 12:00Z, 10.0 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
- 283 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 686 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 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 182200 SVRMAF TXC103-182300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 459 PM CDT WED JUL 18 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS ...SOUTHERN CRANE COUNTY AT 457 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF THE CITY OF CRANE. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED. 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. MOTORISTSS 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, Jul 18, 2:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
TXZ013-014-016-051-053-NMZ013-182045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 240 PM CDT WED JUL 18 1990 AT 227 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE OVER WEST TEXAS WITH HEAVIEST RAINFALL LOCATED 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GARDEN CITY ...20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RANKIN...AND NEAR STANTON. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE WIDELY SCATTERED FROM DRYDEN TO SONORA THEN NORTHWARD TO NEAR ABILENE AND SNYDER THEN SOUTH TO MIDLAND. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...HIGH WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND FLOODING OD LOW LYING AREAS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOU SHOULD SEEK A PLACE OF SAFETY IMMEDIATELY. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO...NOAA RADIO..OR TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jul 18, 3:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
TXZ013-014-016-051-053-NMZ013-182145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 340 PM CDT WED JUL 18 1990 AT 330 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE OVER WEST TEXAS WITH HEAVIEST RAINFALL LOCATED 25 MILES SOUTHEAST MIDLAND...15 MILES NORTHWEST OF STERLING CITY...AND AT GARDEN CITY. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE WIDELY SCATTERED FROM DRYDEN TO SONORA TO NORTH OF SNYDER TO NEAR MCCAMEY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...HIGH WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOU SHOULD SEEK A PLACE OF SAFETY IMMEDIATELY. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO...NOAA RADIO..OR TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS. STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jul 18, 4:43 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-182245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 440 PM CDT WED JUL 18 1990 ...VERY HEAVY RAIN NEAR THE CITY OF CRANE... AT 426 PM CDT...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS NEAR THE CITY OF CRANE. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF SNYDER. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE SCATTERED FROM NEAR SNYDER TO SANDERSON. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND FLOODING IN LOW-LYING AREAS. IF A STORM APPROACHES... TAKE COVER IN A SAFE SHELTER OR HOUSE. IF YOU LIVE NEAR THE CITY OF CRANE...OR IN EASTERN CRANE COUNTY... BE ESPECIALLY ALERT TO POSSIBLE FLOODING IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS. IF WATER COVERS THE ROAD AHEAD OF YOU...DO NOT CROSS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO/TELEVISION STATION FOR FURTHER STATEMBENTS OR 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.