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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 1, 1992Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 1992, 8:31 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 1, 1992, 8:31 PM CDT (01:31 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 1992, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Pecos County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 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 00:00Z on 1992-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 675 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 1992-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 107 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
675 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1407 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
149 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
5.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 020130
SVRMAF
TXC371-020230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
831 PM CDT MON JUN 1 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
 
   ...SOUTHERN PECOS COUNTY
 
AT 826 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES SOUTH
OF FORT STOCKTON. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN
HOUR.
 
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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 7:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFUpton58 min
Jun 1, 7:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos69 min
Jun 1, 8:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos69 min

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.