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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 27, 1992Ector County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1992, 5:15 PM CDT for Ector County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min. 3 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: Jun 27, 1992, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 1992, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Ector County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Jun 27, 5:26 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Ector, TX
Jun 27, 5:43 PM CDT	Hail 1	Ector, TX
Jun 27, 6:01 PM CDT	Hail 1.5	Ector, 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 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 34 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: 384 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -301 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1142 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 250 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 350 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 272216
SVRMAF
TXC135-272315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
515 PM CDT SAT JUN 27 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
 
   ...ECTOR COUNTY
 
AT 510 PM CDT...A SKYWARN SPOTTER REPORTED BASEBALL SIZE HAIL 10 MILES
EAST OF PENWELL. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTH AT 20 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 CHANGIN
G 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 27, 2:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 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 WEATHEzR
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 26, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	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, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	57 min
Jun 27, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Terrell	55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1992 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992

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.