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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 22, 1992Reeves County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1992, 1:40 PM CDT for Reeves County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min. 1 report 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
May 22, 1992, 1:40 PM CDT (18:40 UTC)
Expired
May 22, 1992, 2:45 PM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Reeves County, TX

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 22, 2:52 PM CDTTornado F0Reeves, 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 12:00Z, 6.7 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1992-05-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1992-05-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
64 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 221840
SVRMAF
TXC389-221945-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
140 PM CDT FRI MAY 22 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  245 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
 
   ...WESTERN REEVES COUNTY
 
AT 140 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED IN
WESTERN REEVES COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM WAS SOUTH AT 10 MILES AN
HOUR.
 
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
VRAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 22, 2:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReeves69 min
May 22, 2:58 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFReeves62 min
May 22, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLoving62 min
May 22, 4:37 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFReeves68 min
May 22, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines65 min
May 22, 5:34 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFWard56 min
May 22, 6:16 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFReeves3 hr
May 22, 6:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReeves59 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.