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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 24, 1992Winkler County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1992, 10:32 PM CDT for Winkler County, Texas. It was in force for 58 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 24, 1992, 10:32 PM CDT (03:32 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 1992, 11:30 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Winkler County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 24, 11:05 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Winkler, 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 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 81 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: 556 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 928 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 186 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 4.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 250331
SVRMAF
TXC495-250430-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1032 PM CDT SUN MAY 24 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS
 
   ...WINKLER COUNTY
 
AT 1025 PM CDT...MIDLAND RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
NEAR THE CITY OF KERMIT. THIS STORM HAD PRODUCED GOLFBALL AND
LARGER HAIL NEAR JAL NEW MEXICO IN THE PAST HOUR.
 
MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
 
 
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNHADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

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, May 24, 6:32 PM CDT, 4 hours before

TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-250040-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
625 PM CDT SUN MAY 24 1992

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS
   AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO INCLUDING THE PERMIAN BASIN...TRANS PECOS
   AND THE SOUTHERN SOUTH PLAINS UNTIL 10 PM CDT...
...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF WEST TEXAS TONIGHT...

AT 625 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SOUTHWEST OF
FORT STOCKTON...NEAR PECOS...NORTHEAST OF SARAGOSA...EAST OF GUADALUPE
PASS...IN THE BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK AND WEST OF CARLSBAD IN NEW MEXICO.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 9:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Gaines, Winkler	55 min
May 24, 11:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	55 min
May 24, 11:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Andrews, Ector	29 min
May 24, 11:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Ector	63 min
May 25, 12:14 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Midland	61 min
May 25, 12:43 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Ector	62 min
May 25, 1:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Howard	50 min
May 25, 1:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	60 min
May 25, 6:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Loving	56 min
May 25, 7:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ward	69 min
May 25, 9:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector, Midland	60 min
May 25, 9:46 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Midland	3 hr
May 25, 2:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	58 min
May 25, 3:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	58 min
May 25, 5:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Terrell	68 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.