Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1992, 9:50 PM CDT for Reeves County, Texas. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 30, 1992, 9:50 PM CDT (02:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 1992, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Reeves County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 999 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 310251 SVRMAF TXC389-310345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 950 PM CDT SAT MAY 30 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS ...SOUTH CENTRAL REEVES COUNTY AT 945 PM CDT...THE REEVES COUNTY CIVIL DEFENSE COORDINATOR REPORTED HAIL TO THREE QUARTER INCH AND MODERATE RAINFALL. THIS STORN IS CONTINUING TO BUILD AS IT MOVES INTO THE CENTER OF THE COUNTY AND SHOULD REACH THE SARAGOSA AND BALMORHEA AREAS WITHIN THE HOUR. MOVEMENT OF THIS STORM IS SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. 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
Special weather statement, May 30, 4:29 PM CDT, 5 hours 21 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-302240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 425 PM CDT THU MAY 28 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR FAR WEST TEXAS AND PORTIONS OF NEW MEXICO UNTIL 900 PM CDT...800 PM MDT... AT 425 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE NEAR BALMORHEA AND AROUND GUADALUPE PASS. SHOWERS WERE WEST THROUGH NORTH OF CARLSBAD NEW MEXICO. MOVEMENT WAS EAST5 AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 30, 5:28 PM CDT, 4 hours 22 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-302340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 525 PM CDT THU MAY 28 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR FAR WEST TEXAS AND PORTIONS OF NEW MEXICO UNTIL 900 PM CDT...800 PM MDT... AT 525 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SOUTH OF CARLSBAD CAVERNS...NEAR ARTESIA AND NEAR GUADALUPE PASS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE AROUND BALMORHEA AND WEST THROUGH NORTH OF HOBBS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 30, 6:27 PM CDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-310040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 625 PM CDT THU MAY 28 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR FAR WEST TEXAS AND PORTIONS OF NEW MEXICO UNTIL 900 PM CDT...800 PM MDT... AT 625 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE NEAR BALMORHEA AND BETWEEN GUADALUPE PASS AND ORLA. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN NEW MEXICO FROM CARLSBAD TO NORTH OF HOBBS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 30, 7:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-310140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 725 PM CDT THU MAY 28 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR FAR WEST TEXAS AND PORTIONS OF NEW MEXICO UNTIL 900 PM CDT...800 PM MDT... AT 725 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE NORTHWEST OF TOYAH AND WEST OF LOVINGTON IN NEW MEXICO. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS WERE NEAR BALMORHEA AND WEST OF LUBBOCK MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 30, 8:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-310240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 825 PM CDT THU MAY 28 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR FAR WEST TEXAS AND PORTIONS OF NEW MEXICO UNTIL 900 PM CDT...800 PM MDT... AT 825 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE NORTHWEST OF TOYAH...WEST OF LOVINGTON...AND NORTHWEST OF CARLSBAD. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS WERE NEAR BALMORHEA AND SOUTHWEST OF LUBBOCK MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 30, 9:29 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-310340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 825 PM CDT THU MAY 28 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR FAR WEST TEXAS AND PORTIONS OF NEW MEXICO HAS EXPIRED... AT 925 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE NEAR TOYAH AND SOUTHWEST AND NORTHEAST OF CARLSBAD IN NEW MEXICO. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS EXTENDED FROM THE RIO GRANDE WEST OF MARFA TO SOUTHWEST OF LUBBOCK. A SHOWER WAS NORTH OF SAN ANGELO. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
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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.