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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

February 23, 1992Midland County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 23, 1992, 9:25 PM CST for Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min. 2 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: Feb 23, 1992, 9:25 PM CST (03:25 UTC)
Expired: Feb 23, 1992, 10:30 PM CST
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Midland County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Feb 23, 9:40 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Midland, TX
Feb 23, 10:05 PM CST	Hail 1	Midland, 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 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 18 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3337 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 240326
SVRMAF
TXC329-240430-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
925 PM CST SUN FEB 23 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
 
   ...MIDLAND COUNTY
 
AT 925 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED ON RADAR JUST
SOUTH OF THE MIDLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.
 
A STORM SPOTTER REPORTED PEA SIZE HAIL AT 920 PM CST AND THE HAIL WILL
PROBABLY GET LARGER AS THE THUNDERSTORM MOVES NORTHEAST ACROSS THE
CITY OF MIDLAND.
 
MOVEMENT IS NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WUHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 23, 8:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	57 min
Feb 23, 10:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	69 min
Feb 23, 10:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	67 min
Feb 24, 1:00 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Glasscock	60 min

Nearby

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.