Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1990, 5:29 PM CDT for Ector County, Texas. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 4, 1990, 5:29 PM CDT (22:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 1990, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ector 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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 322 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
- 1191 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 847 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 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 042229 SVRMAF TXC135-042330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 529 PM CDT SAT AUG 4 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS ...ECTOR COUNTY AT 525 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM BETWEEN GOLDSMITH AND ODESSA. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS OF 60 MPH OR GREATER...LARGE HAIL...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 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.
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, Aug 4, 2:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
TXZ013-014-016-051-053-NMZ013-042040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 238 PM CDT SAT AUG 04 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO... AT 230 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM NORTH OF SEMINOLE TO SOUTHWEST OF HOBBS NEW MEXICO THEN SOUTH TO NORTHWEST OF PECOS. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE ALSO SCATTERED FROM NORTHWEST OF IRAAN TO WEST OF OZONA AND NORTHWEST OF SONORA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG WINDS...SMALL HAIL...AND SOME FLOODING OF LOW AREAS. THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED OVER THE SOUTH PLAINS...NORTHERN PERMIAN BASIN... SOUTHERN CONCHO VALLEY...SOUTHERN PERMIAN BASIN SOUTHWEST TO BIG BEND. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TV 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.