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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

August 16, 1990Midland County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 1990, 6:29 PM CDT for Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 16, 1990, 6:29 PM CDT (23:29 UTC)
Expired: Aug 16, 1990, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Midland 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 18 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 162330
SVRMAF
TXC329-170030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
629 PM CDT THU AUG 16 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
 
   ...MIDLAND COUNTY
 
AT 626 PM CDT...A REPORT OF WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 80 MPH WAS RECEIVED
FROM THE PUBLIC ABOUT 4 MILES EAST OF MIDLAND. RADAR INDICATES SEVERAL
THUNDERSTORMS IN MIDLAND COUNTY WHICH MAY PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND
HEAVY RAIN. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
 
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, Aug 16, 5:58 PM CDT, 31 minutes before

TXZ013-014-016-051-053-NMZ013-162345-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
558 PM CDT THU AUG 16 1990

...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY IN THE MIDLAND/ODESSA AREA...

THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP RAPIDLY NEAR THE CITIES OF
MIDLAND AND ODESSA. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN
AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING MAY ALSO
OCCUR.

IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWN
POURS OF RAIN AND HIGH WATER. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY SO BE
ALERT.

TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR
POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND FURTHER STATEMENTS.

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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.