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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 9, 1992Ector County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 9, 1992, 7:33 PM CDT for Ector County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 9, 1992, 7:33 PM CDT (00:33 UTC)
Expired
Apr 9, 1992, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Ector County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1992-04-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1556 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 1992-04-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -21 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1556 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-102 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1580 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 100035
SVRMAF
TXC135-100130-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
733 PM CDT THU APR 9 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
 
   ...ECTOR COUNTY
 
AT 725 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF
ODESSA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 10 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 WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 9, 7:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMidland59 min
Apr 9, 7:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMidland65 min
Apr 9, 7:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMartin62 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.