Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 199, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 1992, 12:27 AM CDT for Reeves County, Texas. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 18, 1992, 12:27 AM CDT (05:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 1992, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 63 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, 5.5 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.
- 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
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, 6:45 PM CDT, 5 hours 42 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jul 17, 10:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-180445- 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, 1 hour 20 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 17, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 69 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 |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1992Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.