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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 6, 1991Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1991, 6:20 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 6, 1991, 6:20 PM CDT (23:20 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1991, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Pecos County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 139 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1991-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1991-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 202 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
202 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
220 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
7.7

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The text

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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, Jun 6, 2:47 PM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-062045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
242 PM CDT THU JUN 6 1991

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR LEA COUNTY UNTIL 900 PM CDT
THIS THURSDAY EVENING...

AT 225 PM CDT AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...WAS
LOCATED FROM NEAR ALPINE TO WEST OF ROSWELL. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25
MILES AN HOUR.

MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE CAUTION IN AND NEAR THrE WATCH AREA.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR FURTHER
STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFGlasscock60 min
Jun 6, 3:31 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFReeves59 min
Jun 6, 4:08 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFPecos67 min
Jun 6, 4:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane60 min
Jun 6, 5:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFWard63 min
Jun 6, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews60 min
Jun 6, 5:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFDawson63 min
Jun 6, 6:03 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFDawson57 min
Jun 6, 4:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFChaves75 min
Jun 6, 5:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea68 min

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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.