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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1990, 6:40 PM CDT for Ector County, Texas. It was in force for 65 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
- Aug 13, 1990, 6:40 PM CDT (23:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 1990, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 6:50 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Ector, 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 34 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
- 244 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1202 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 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 132340 SVRMAF TXC135-140045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 640 PM CDT MON AUG 13 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 ...ECTOR COUNTY AT 635 PM CDT...A WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND DAMAGE 1 MILE NORTH OF ODESSA. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING NORTH 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 13, 3:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
TXZ013-014-016-051-053-NMZ013-132140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 330 PM CDT MON AUG 13 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS OVER MIDLAND... AT 315 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED RAPIDLY OVER MIDLAND AND REPORTS OF SOME HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND...AND LIGHTNING...WERE RECEIVED AT THE WEATHER OFFICE AT MIDLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. AT 325 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...EXTENDED ACROSS WEST TEXAS...BOUNDED BY A LINE FROM NORTHEAST OF LUBBOCK...TO COLORADO CITY...TO SANDERSON...TO CARLSBAD CAVERNS NEW MEXICO ...TO NORTHEAST OF LUBBOCK. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT 10 MILES AN HO&UR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR FURTHER BULLETINS.
Special weather statement, Aug 13, 4:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
TXZ013-014-016-051-053-NMZ013-132240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 437 PM CDT MON AUG 13 1990 ...STRONG THUNDESTORMS OVER WEST TEXAS... AT 431 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED WEST OF SAN ANGELO...WEST OF CRANE...SOUTH OF FORT STOCKTON...AND SOUTH OF HOBBS NEW MEXICO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WIND, SMALL HAIL...AND LOCAL FLOODING IN LOW AREAS. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO WATER IN LOW AREAS. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...WERE NORTH AND WEST OF ODESSA TO NORTHWEST OF HOBBS NEW MEXICO EXTENDING SOUTH TO BIG BEND. SCATTERED RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTOMS WERE ALSO FROM BIG LAKE TO VICINITY OF SONORA AND EXTENDED NORTH TO EAST OF BIG SPRING. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE WEST AND EAST OF LUBBOCK. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL RnADIO OR TV STATION FOR FURTHER BULLETINS.
Special weather statement, Aug 13, 5:45 PM CDT, 55 minutes before
TXZ013-014-016-051-053-NMZ013-132340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 538 PM CDT MON AUG 13 1990 ...STRONG THUNDESTORMS OVER WEST TEXAS... AT 532 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED BETWEEN GARDEN CITY AND STERLING CITY...WEST AND SOUTHWEST OF SAN ANGELO...AND WEST OF KERMIT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... GUSTY WIND, SMALL HAIL...AND LOCAL FLOODING IN LOW AREAS. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO WATER IN LOW AREAS. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...EXTENDED FROM VICINITY OF MIDLAND TO SOUTH OF HOBBS NEW MEXICO EXTENDING SOUTH TO BIG BEND. SCATTERED RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTOMS WERE ALSO FROM SOUTHWEST AND EAST OF SONORA TO SOUTH OF BIG SPRING. THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED WEST TO EAST OF LUBBOCK. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR FURTHER BULLETINS.
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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.