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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

March 31, 1992Andrews County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 1992, 7:19 PM CST for Andrews County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min. 2 reports 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
Mar 31, 1992, 7:19 PM CST (01:19 UTC)
Expired
Mar 31, 1992, 8:15 PM CST
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Andrews County, TX

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 31, 7:25 PM CSTHail 4Andrews, TX
Mar 31, 7:41 PM CSTHail 1.75Andrews, 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 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 57 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 1992-04-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 167 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 1992-04-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -84 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
167 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1465 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
87 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
2 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, Mar 31, 5:57 PM CST, 1 hour 22 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-010055-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
555 PM CST TUE MAR 31 1992

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS
AND EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO UNTIL 1100 PM CST...

AT 525 PM CST...AN AREA OF WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH
VERY HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL WERE LOCATED FROM EAST OF ARTESIA NEW MEXICO TO
EAST OF MIDLAND TEXAS AND REACHED AS FAR SOUTH AS BAKERSFIELD.

MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO }AND INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME
OR BUSINESS IF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS IN OR NEAR YOUR AREA.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION
FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 31, 7:45 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor60 min
Mar 31, 8:18 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMidland57 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.