Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 9, 1990, 5:41 PM CDT for Howard County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 9, 1990, 5:41 PM CDT (22:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 9, 1990, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Howard 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 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 092242 SVRMAF TXC227-092345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 541 PM CDT SUN SEP 9 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST TEXAS ...SOUTHERN HOWARD COUNTY AT 540 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BIG SPRING 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. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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, Sep 9, 4:43 PM CDT, 58 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-092245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 443 PM CDT SUN SEP 9 1990 AT 425 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED NORTH AND NORTHWEST OF THE MIDLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...ALSO SOUTHEAST OF SNYDER...NEAR IRAAN...AND NORTHWEST OF ODESSA. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE WIDELY SCATTERD FROM NEAR SNYDER TO OZONA TO FORT STOCKTON AND MARFA TO EAST OF LAMESA. MOVEMNT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN CAUSE HIGH WINDS...SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. IF YOUR LIFE SEEMS TO BE IN DANGER...MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY.
Special weather statement, Sep 9, 5:41 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-092345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 540 PM CDT SUN SEP 9 1990 AT 530 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE WIDELY SCATTERED ACROSS THE PERMIAN BASIN AND THE CONCHO VALLEY. THESE STORMS WERE BETWEEN SNYDER...PECOS AND SONORA. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS BETWEEN SWEETWATER AND ODESSA...ACROSS SOUTHERN WARD COUNTY AND 15 MILES SOUTH OF SHEFFIELD. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. AT 430 PM...A WIND GUST OF 61 MILES AN HOUR WAS OBSERVED AT THE MIDLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. ALSO...SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS WERE REPORTED ACROSS THE MIDLAND/ODESSA AREA AND NEAR SHEFFIELD. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HIGH WINDS...SMALL HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. IF A STORM APPROACHES YOUR AREA...MOVE INDOORS. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR WATER COVERED ROADWAYS AND REDUCE THEIR SPEED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR AREA RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS 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.