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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 22, 1992Howard County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1992, 9:53 PM CDT for Howard County, Texas. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 22, 1992, 9:53 PM CDT (02:53 UTC)
Expired
May 22, 1992, 11:00 PM CDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Howard County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 82 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 1992-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 598 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 1992-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -16 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
598 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1874 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-22 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 230254
SVRMAF
TXC227-230400-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
953 PM CDT FRI MAY 22 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHWEST TEXAS
 
   ...HOWARD COUNTY
 
AT 950 PM CDT...BIG SPRING POLICE WERE REPORTING WINDS OF 60 MILES AN
HOUR IN BIG SPRING. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING THE CITY OF
BIG SPRING WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE THESE WINDS AS WELL AS LARGE HAIL.
 
THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
 
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 22, 7:07 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFReeves3 hr
May 22, 7:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor59 min
May 22, 8:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMidland63 min
May 22, 8:47 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFGaines3 hr
May 23, 5:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMidland60 min
May 23, 8:33 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFCrane3 hr
May 23, 9:29 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFAndrews, Gaines12 hr
May 23, 4:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos64 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.