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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 153, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1992, 6:46 PM CDT for Gaines County, Texas. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 1992, 6:46 PM CDT (23:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1992, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gaines County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 967 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 801 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
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 13, 4:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-132240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 339 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PORTION OF WEST TEXAS UNTIL 10 PM CDT... AT 430 PM CDT...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HAVE RAIN WAS LOCATED NORTHWEST OF ABILENE MOVING SOUTH 15 MILES AN HOUR. AN AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...ONE WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED IN IN VICINITY OF MARATHON. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED. ANOTHER AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...ONE WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... WAS LOCATED FROM NORTHWEST OF LUBBOCK TO NORTH OF PLAINS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...AND FLOODING OF STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 4:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-132240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 339 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PORTION OF WEST TEXAS UNTIL 10 PM CDT... AT 430 PM CDT...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED NORTHWEST OF ABILENE MOVING SOUTH 15 MILES AN HOUR. AN AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...ONE WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED IN IN VICINITY OF MARATHON. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED. ANOTHER AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...ONE WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... WAS LOCATED FROM NORTHWEST OF LUBBOCK TO NORTH OF PLAINS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNINdG...GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 5:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-132340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 539 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PORTION OF WEST TEXAS UNTIL 10 PM CDT... AT 532 PM CDT...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED NORTHWEST OF LUBBOCK MOVING EAST 10 MILES AN HOUR. A TORNADO WAS REPORTED FROM THIS STORM DURING THE PAST HOUR. A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED NORTH OF SEMINOLE MOVING EAST 10 MILES AN HOUR. A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS ALSO LOCATED NORTHEAST OF MARATHON. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS ...SOME HAIL...AND FLOODIVNG OF LOW LYING AREAS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER 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 12, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 59 min |
| Jun 12, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 61 min |
| Jun 12, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 62 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.