Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 1991, 4:53 PM CDT for Ward County, Texas. It was in force for 67 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
- May 11, 1991, 4:53 PM CDT (21:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 1991, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ward County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 5:08 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Ward, 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 2346 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -168 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 796 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 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 112154 SVRMAF TXC475-112300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 453 PM CDT SAT MAY 11 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS ...WARD COUNTY AT 451 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES TO THE SOUTHWEST OF PYOTE. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED MARBLE SIZED HAIL OVER THE LAST 5 MINUTES. 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, May 11, 4:35 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-120000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 425 PM CDT SAT MAY 11 1991 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT... AT 425 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED NEAR GRANDFALLS AND PYOTE MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST. THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED IN WESTERN REEVES COUNTY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGxS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ward | 69 min |
| May 10, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 59 min |
| May 11, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 2 hr |
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.