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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 6, 1991Gaines County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1991, 7:27 PM CDT for Gaines County, Texas. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 6, 1991, 7:27 PM CDT (00:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1991, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Gaines County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 97 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 00:00Z on 1991-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 186 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1991-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 150 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
186 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-101 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1926 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
150 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
196 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.3

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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, 4 hours 40 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.

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.