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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 198, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

July 17, 1992Reeves County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 1992, 11:21 PM CDT for Reeves County, Texas. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 17, 1992, 11:21 PM CDT (04:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 18, 1992, 12:30 AM CDT
In force: 69 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Reeves County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 158 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: 678 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1890 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 114 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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, Jul 17, 5:47 PM CDT, 5 hours 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 17, 6:45 PM CDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 17, 10:46 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1044 PM CDT FRI JUL 17 1992

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT (10 PM MDT) FOR LEA
COUNTY NEW MEXICO...

AT 1030 PM CDT...AN AREA OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS SOME WITH VERY HEAVY
RAIN WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR SAN ANGELO...TO NEAR LANGTRY...TO SOUTH OF
VAN HORN...TO NORTH OF GUADALUPE PASS AND TO NEAR LITTLEFIELD.
THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PECOS.

MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

DURING A TORNADO WATCH...BE READY TO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND OR TO
A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE IF A WARNING IS ISSUED.
REMEMBER...THERE MAY NOT BE TIME FOR A TORNADO WARNING BEFORE ONE STRIKES.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO.

Local storm report, Jul 17, 11:07 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1100 PM CDT FRI JUL 17 1992

TIME             COUNTY        EVENT
505 PM CDT       PECOS         PECOS COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED 3/4 INCH
                 #371           TO 1 INCH HAIL NEAR BAKERSFIELD.

515 PM CDT       PECOS         PECOS COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED 3/4 INCH
                 #371          TO 1 INCH HAIL NEAR BAKERSFIELD HAD
                               STOPPED.

856 PM CDT       PECOS         PUBLIC REPORTED 3/4 INCH TO 1 INCH HAIL
                 #371          SOUTH OF BAKERSFIELD.

930 PM CDT       PECOS         PECOS COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED 13/4 INCH
                 #371          HAIL NEAR FORT STOCKTON.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 17, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	66 min
Jul 17, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	58 min
Jul 17, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	64 min
Jul 18, 12:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reeves	63 min
Jul 18, 1:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	58 min
Jul 18, 3:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	66 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.