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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 26, 1992Martin County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1992, 11:29 PM CDT for Martin County, Texas. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 26, 1992, 11:29 PM CDT (04:29 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 1992, 12:30 AM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Martin County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 46 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1439 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1793 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 232 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 4.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 270430
SVRMAF
TXC317-270530-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1129 PM CDT FRI JUN 26 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHWEST TEXAS
 
   ...MARTIN COUNTY
 
AT 1127 PM CDT...THA MARTIN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE REPORTED WINDS TO
NEARLY 70 MPH IN THE CITY OF STANTON. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE
SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
 
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

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 26, 7:43 PM CDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before

TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-270150-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
735 PM CDT FRI JUN 26 1992

..A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF WEST TEXAS UNTIL MIDNIGHT
CDT...
...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR LEA COUNTY NEW MEXICO UNTIL 1000 PM
CDT (900 PM MDT)

AT 725 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND RAINSHOWERS EXTENDED FROM NORTHWEST OF TATUM NEW MEXICO TO THE TEXAS
BIG BEND.
MOSTLY LIGHT RAINSHOWERS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED OVER THE TEXAS SOUTH PLAINS
FROM SOUTH OF SNYDER TO WEST OF SAN ANGELO. MOVEMENT WAS EAST 15 MILES AN
HOUR.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN...
DANGEROUS KILLER LIGHTNING AND FLOODING IN LOW-LYING AREAS.
                                                                               SSTAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR LATEST DETAILS
OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

Special weather statement, Jun 26, 9:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before

TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-272045-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
242 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 1992

AT 230 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS JUST
SOUTH OF BALMORHEA TO THE VICINITY OF FORT STOCKTON. SOME OF THESE
STORMS WERE ALREADY PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL.

MOVEMENT OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WAS UNDETERMINED.

THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY
LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL.

AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING
SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...TUNE TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR
TELEVISION STATIONS OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER
INFORMATION.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	61 min
Jun 26, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reeves	55 min
Jun 26, 10:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	67 min
Jun 26, 10:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	62 min
Jun 26, 10:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Ector	61 min
Jun 27, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	64 min
Jun 27, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane	61 min
Jun 27, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	62 min
Jun 27, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	60 min
Jun 27, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	57 min
Jun 27, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Terrell	55 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.