Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 1991, 11:01 PM CDT for Loving County, Ward County, Texas. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 21, 1991, 11:01 PM CDT (04:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1991, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Loving County, TX, Ward County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -315 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2233 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 21, 5:39 PM CDT, 5 hours 22 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-212340-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
539 PM CDT TUE MAY 21 1991
...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN AND EASTERN NEW MEXICO AND
FAR WEST TEXAS UNTIL 800 PM CDT TONIGHT...
AT 525 PM CDT...A RAIN SHOWER HAD DEVELOPED NEAR KENT.
ELSEWHERE...AN AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM SAN
JON NEW MEXICO TO NEAR EL PASO.
STORM MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OFTEN PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...STRONG
WINDS...CONTINUOUS LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL THAT MAY CAUSE
FLOODING IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION
STATION FOR FURTHER BULLETINS...AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.Special weather statement, May 21, 6:29 PM CDT, 4 hours 32 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-220040-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
629 PM CDT TUE MAY 21 1991
...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN AND EASTERN NEW MEXICO AND
FAR WEST TEXAS UNTIL 800 PM CDT TONIGHT...
AT 625 PM CDT...THE RAINSHOWER NEAR KENT HAD DISSIPATED.
ELSEWHERE...AN AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM NORTH
OF DUNLAP NEW MEXICO TO 50 MILES NORTHWEST OF SIERRA BLANCA.
MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OFTEN PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...STRONG
WINDS...CONTINUOUS LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL THAT MAY CAUSE
FLOODING IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION
STATION FOR FURTHER BULLETINS...AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 55 min |
| May 21, 9:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 68 min |
| May 22, 5:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Reeves | 59 min |
| May 22, 6:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ward | 58 min |
| May 22, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 63 min |
| May 21, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Chaves | 60 min |
| May 21, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Eddy | 62 min |
| May 21, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Eddy | 60 min |
| May 21, 8:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Eddy | 2 hr |
| May 21, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 60 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1991Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1991
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.