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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 23, 1991Reeves County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1991, 4:26 PM CDT for Reeves County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 23, 1991, 4:26 PM CDT (21:26 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 1991, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Reeves County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 158 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 1991-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 715 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 12:00Z on 1991-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 6 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
715 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-377 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1729 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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, Jun 23, 3:38 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-232145-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
333 PM CDT SUN JUN 23 1991

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT FOR PARTS
OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...

AT 325 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN...WERE
SCATTERED FROM SOUTH OF CARLSBAD NEW MEXICO TO NORTHWEST THROUGH
EAST OF FORT DAVIS.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO INCLREASE IN INTENSITY DURING
THE NEXT FEW HOURS.

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 6:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines46 min
Jun 23, 6:52 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFGaines53 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.