Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 11, 1990, 4:04 AM CST for Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min. 2 reports 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
- Mar 11, 1990, 4:04 AM CST (10:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 11, 1990, 5:00 AM CST
- In force
- 56 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 4:14 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Midland, TX | |
| Mar 11, 4:40 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Midland, 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 00:00Z, 10.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1521 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 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 111005 SVRMAF TXC329-111100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 404 AM CST SUN MAR 11 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS ...MIDLAND COUNTY AT 405 AM CST A SOLID LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM SOUTHWEST OF ODESSA NORTH TO ANDREWS AND SEMINOLE. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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, Mar 10, 10:05 PM CST, 5 hours 59 minutes before
TXZ013-014-016-051-053-NMZ003-110440- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1004 PM CST SAT MAR 10 1990 THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS CANCELLED THE TORNADO WATCH WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE PERMIAN BASIN. THE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH MOVED THROUGH THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING HAVE MOVED EAST OF THE PERMIAN BASIN AND DECREASED IN INTENSITY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 3:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Winkler | 41 min |
| Mar 11, 3:13 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Ector, Gaines | 62 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.