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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 15, 1992Terrell County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 1992, 11:19 PM CDT for Terrell County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 15, 1992, 11:19 PM CDT (04:19 UTC)
Expired: Apr 16, 1992, 12:15 AM CDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Terrell County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 153 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: 987 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -129 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1420 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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

Local storm report, Apr 15, 11:10 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 15, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Ward	57 min
Apr 15, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector, Midland	55 min
Apr 15, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane	64 min
Apr 15, 9:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos	65 min
Apr 15, 9:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Upton	65 min
Apr 15, 10:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Terrell	65 min
Apr 15, 10:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Ward	63 min
Apr 16, 8:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	66 min
Apr 16, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	65 min
Apr 16, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	67 min
Apr 16, 6:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	58 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.