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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 126, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 8, 1992Reeves County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1992, 2:46 PM CDT for Reeves County, Texas. It was in force for 44 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1992, 2:46 PM CDT (19:46 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1992, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Reeves County, TX

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 8, 3:25 PM CDTTornado F0Reeves, TX

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 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 1992-06-08Temperature 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 1992-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 85 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1494 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
122 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 8, 12:18 PM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before
TXZ013-014-016-051-053-NMZ013-082200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1200 PM CDT MON JUN 8 1992

...PERMIAN BASIN THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...

THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON
AND TONIGHT ACROSS THE PERMIAN BASIN.

ALSO...HEAVY RAIN MAY RESULT IN LOCALIZED FLOODING OR FLASH FLOODING
IN PARTS OF THE PERMIAN BASIN ALREADY SATURATED BY WEEKEND RAINS.

SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD BE READY
FOR ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 11:59 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFUpton61 min
Jun 7, 11:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFUpton61 min
Jun 8, 1:11 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFMartin, Midland2 hr
Jun 8, 1:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFHoward, Martin68 min
Jun 8, 2:27 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFGlasscock2 hr
Jun 8, 3:26 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFBorden, Howard, Martin3 hr
Jun 8, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos62 min
Jun 8, 5:10 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFReeves65 min
Jun 8, 5:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos58 min
Jun 8, 5:57 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFLoving, Reeves3 hr
Jun 8, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGlasscock60 min
Jun 8, 6:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLoving, Reeves68 min
Jun 7, 7:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy55 min
Jun 7, 8:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFChaves50 min
Jun 7, 9:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy82 min
Jun 7, 9:15 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFEddy45 min
Jun 7, 9:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEddy118 min
Jun 7, 10:55 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEddy2 hr
Jun 8, 12:35 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFEddy2 hr
Jun 8, 3:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFChaves, Eddy73 min
Jun 8, 4:55 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFEddy65 min
Jun 8, 6:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy63 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.