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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 9, 1992Andrews County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 9, 1992, 4:22 PM CDT for Andrews County, Texas. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 9, 1992, 4:22 PM CDT (21:22 UTC)
Expired
Apr 9, 1992, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Andrews County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 337 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1992-04-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 437 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1992-04-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 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
437 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-240 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2140 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 9, 5:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews67 min
Apr 9, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFWard45 min

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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.