Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1992, 8:52 PM CDT for Ector County, Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1992, 8:52 PM CDT (01:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1992, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ector County, TX, Midland County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 12 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 986 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1608 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
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, 2:57 PM CDT, 5 hours 55 minutes before
TXZ013-014-016-051-053-NMZ013-090200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 257 PM CDT MON JUN 8 1992 THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN NEW MEXICO A LARGE PART OF WESTERN TEXAS EFFECTIVE THIS MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING UNTIL 1000 PM MDT. TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 80 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 35 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF FORT STOCKTON TEXAS TO 20 MILES EAST OF CLAYTON NEW MEXICO. AT 253 PM CDT(153 PM MDT)...THUNDERSTORMS HAD BEGUN TO DEVELOP IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWEST TEXAS ALONG THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS IN RESPONSE TO AN UPPER LEVEL LOW MOVING INTO THE AREA FROM THE SOUTHWEST. IN COMBINATION WITH ABUNDANT MOISTURE AND HEATING...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...SOME POSSIBLY PRODUCING TORNADOES ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP IN THE WATCH AREA. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS WAND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 2:57 PM CDT, 5 hours 55 minutes before
TXZ013-014-016-051-053-NMZ013-090400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED TO INCLUDE CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 257 PM CDT MON JUN 8 1992 THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN NEW MEXICO AND A LARGE PART OF WESTERN TEXAS EFFECTIVE THIS MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING UNTIL 1100 PM CDT(1000 PM MDT). TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS ALONG AND 80 STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 35 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF FORT STOCKTON TEXAS TO 20 MILES EAST OF CLAYTON NEW MEXICO. AT 253 PM CDT(153 PM MDT)...THUNDERSTORMS HAD BEGUN TO DEVELOP IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWEST TEXAS ALONG THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS IN RESPONSE TO AN UPPER LEVEL LOW MOVING INTO THE AREA FROM THE SOUTHWEST. IN COMBINATION WITH ABUNDANT MOISTURE AND HEATING...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...SOME POSSIBLY PRODUCING TORNADOES ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP IN THE WATCH AREA. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 58 min |
| Jun 8, 10:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Howard | 2 hr |
| Jun 8, 10:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Howard | 3 hr |
| Jun 8, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 55 min |
| Jun 8, 10:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Crane, Upton | 57 min |
| Jun 9, 12:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 59 min |
| Jun 9, 1:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 60 min |
| Jun 9, 2:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 52 min |
| Jun 9, 3:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 68 min |
| Jun 9, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden | 61 min |
| Jun 8, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 57 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.