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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 21, 1990, 2:03 PM CDT for Ector County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 21, 1990, 2:03 PM CDT (19:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 21, 1990, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 211907 COR SVRMAF TXC135-212000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 203 PM CDT FRI SEP 21 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS ...ECTOR COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF ODESSA... AT 200 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF GOLDSMITH. A REPORT FROM THE PUBLIC AT 155 PM CDT INDICATED A TORNADO WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM WHICH HAS NOW DISAPPEARED BACK INTO THE CLOUD. THE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. 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 21, 11:47 AM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-211740- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1139 AM CDT FRI SEP 21 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PERMIAN BASIN...CONCHO VALLEY... LOWER PECOS VALLEY...AND BIG BEND AREA UNTIL 7PM CDT... AT 1127 AM CDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED FROM WEST OF SWEETWATER TO EAST OF BIG SPRING AND SOUTHWEST OF STERLING CITY. RAINSHOWERS...THUNDERSTORMS AND PATCHES OF RAIN WERE WIDELY SCATTERED OVER SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...NORTHERN PERMIAN BASIN...SOUTHERN SOUTH PLAINS TO THE BIG COUNTRY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE IN NUMBER AND INTENSITY DURING THE AFTERNOON WITH POSSIBLE FLASH FLOODS IN VICINITY OF THE STRONGER STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND BULLETINS.
Special weather statement, Sep 21, 12:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-211840- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1232 PM CDT FRI SEP 21 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PERMIAN BASIN...CONCHO VALLEY... LOWER PECOS VALLEY...AND BIG BEND AREA UNTIL 7PM CDT... AT 1227 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED EAST TO SOUTHEAST OF BIG SPRING. SCATTERED RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDER- STORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...ALONG WITH AN AREA OF RAIN WERE OVER THE NORTHERN AND EASTERN PERMIAN BASIN EXTENDING TO THE NORTH OF ABILENE. WIDELY SCATTERED RAINSHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE SOUTHERN SOUTH PLAINS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST A1T 10 MILES AN HOUR. FLASH FLOODS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTER- NOON IN VICINITY OF THE STRONGER STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND BULLETINS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 4:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ector | 3 hr |
| Sep 21, 4:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Ward | 3 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990
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.