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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

March 3, 1992Midland County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 3, 1992, 5:41 PM CST for Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 3, 1992, 5:41 PM CST (23:41 UTC)
Expired
Mar 3, 1992, 6:45 PM CST
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Midland County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1992-03-03Temperature 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 1992-03-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 128 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
128 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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

Special weather statement, Mar 3, 4:52 PM CST, 49 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-032350-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
443 PM CST TUE MAR 3 1992

...THUNDERSTORMS INCREASING OVER SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND THE SOUTHEAST
CORNER OF NEW MEXICO...

AT 425 PM CST...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE
INCREASING OVER PARTS OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS AND THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF
NEW MEXICO. THE AREA WAS FROM SOUTHWEST OF LITTLEFIELD TO SOUTH OF
SANDERSON AND THEN WEST TO FORT DAVIS AND NORTH TO TATUM NEW MEXICO.
THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS ALONG THE TEXAS/NEW MEXICO BORDER FROM NEAR
SEMINOLE TO KERMIT.
MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST 25 MILES AN HOUR.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINTDS...SMALL HAIL...
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND CAUSE FLOODING IN LOW-LYING PLACES.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR LATEST
INFORMATION.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 3, 5:10 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor65 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.