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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 27, 1992, 8:25 PM CST for Ector County, Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 1992, 8:25 PM CST (02:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 1992, 9:30 PM CST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ector County, TX, Midland County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 12 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 318 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1780 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 280225 SVRMAF TXC135-329-280330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 825 PM CST FRI MAR 27 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS ...ECTOR COUNTY...MIDLAND COUNTY AT 823 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ODESSA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THE CITIES OF ODESSA AND MIDLAND ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. 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 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, Mar 27, 6:59 PM CST, 1 hour 26 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-280150- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 650 PM CST FRI MAR 27 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF WEST TEXAS AND LEA COUNTY NEW MEXICO UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST... AT 634 PM CST...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS SOUTH OF ANDREWS. THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS WERE INCREASING RAPIDLY OVER THE SOUTH PLAINS...THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF NEW MEXICO AND SOUTHWEST TEXAS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST 40 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN ...SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND CAUSE FLOODING IN LOW-LYING PLACES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR LATEST INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 7:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ward | 64 min |
| Mar 27, 8:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane | 58 min |
| Mar 27, 8:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Andrews | 57 min |
| Mar 27, 8:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Martin | 67 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.