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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 13, 1992Ector County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 1992, 2:23 PM CDT for Ector County, Texas. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 13, 1992, 2:23 PM CDT (19:23 UTC)
Expired
May 13, 1992, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Ector County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 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 12:00Z on 1992-05-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 9 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 12:00Z on 1992-05-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -41 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
9 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-248 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3102 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 13, 3:06 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFUpton69 min
May 13, 3:26 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFLea64 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.