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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 25, 1992Loving County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1992, 6:19 AM CDT for Loving County, Texas. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 25, 1992, 6:19 AM CDT (11:19 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 1992, 7:15 AM CDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Loving County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 131 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 251130
SVRMAF
TXC301-251215-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
619 AM CDT MON MAY 25 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS

   ...LOVING COUNTY

AT 615 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTH OF
MENTONE.

THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON`T DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

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

Local storm report, May 25, 4:12 AM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
330 AM CDT MON MAY 25 1992

TIME (CDT)         COUNTY          EVENT
0329               WARD            PUBLIC REPORTED QUARTER SIZE HAIL 1 MILE
                   TXC 475         SOUTH OF MONAHANS.

0732               PECOS           STORM CHASER REPORTED TORNADO 5 NW OF
                   TXC 371         GIRVIN.

0740               CRANE           STORM CHASER REPORTED 1/2 MILE WIDE TORNADO
                   TXC 103         IN EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN CRANE COUNTY ABOUT
                                   10 MILES WNW OF MCCAMEY.

0901               CRANE           PUBLIC REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL IN CRANE.
                   TXC 103

0912               UPTON           STORM CHASER REPORTED NICKEL SIZE HAIL
                   TXC 461
0912               UPTON           STORM CHASER REPORTED NICKEL SIZE HAIL
                   TXC 461         10 MILES NORTH OF RANKIN.

1605               PECOS           STORM CHASER REPORTED TORNADO 30 MILES
                   TXC 371         WSW OF FORT STOCKTON.

1616               PECOS           FIREMAN REPORTED TORNADO 27 MILES WSW OF
                   TXC 371         FORT STOCKTON.

1735               PECOS           STORM SPOTTER REPORTED TORNADO AND HEN
                   TXC 371         EGG SIZE HAIL 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT
                                   STOCKTON.

2125               LEA             PUBLIC REPORTED GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 5 MILES
                   NMC 025         EAST OF JAL.

2142               LEA             FIREMAN REPORTED GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL IN
                   NMC 025         HOBBS.

2144               LEA             PUBLIC REPORTED HEN EGG SIZE HAIL IN
                   NMC 025         HOBBS.

2135               LEA             PUBLIC REPORTED TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF
                    NMC 025         EUNICE.

2203                LEA             SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED GOLFBALL SIZE
                    NMC 025         1 MILES WEST OF JAL.

2256                LEA             PUBLIC REPORTED SOFTBALL SIZE HAIL
                    NMC 025         2 MILES SOUTH OF JAL.

2305                WINKLER         PUBLIC REPORTED GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 4
                    TXC 495         MILES WEST OF KERMIT.

2329                ECTOR           PUBLIC REPORTED WALNUT SIZE HAIL 3 MILES
                    TXC 135         WEST OF GOLDSMITH.

2333                ANDREWS         PUBLIC REPORTED GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 2 MILES
                    TXC 003         SOUTH OF ANDREWS.

25/0035             ECTOR           SPOTTER REPORTED HEN EGG SIZE HAIL 5 MILES
                    TXC 135         NORTH OF ODESSA.

25/0038             ECTOR           PUBLIC REPORTED GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 4 MILES
                    TXC 135         WEST OF ODESSA.
25/0056            ECTOR           PUBLIC REPORTED BASEBALL SIZE HAIL
                   TXC 135         3 MILES NORTH OF OD?ESSA.

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, 10:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Winkler	58 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.