Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 1993, 6:20 PM CDT for Gaines County, Texas. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 27, 1993, 6:20 PM CDT (23:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 1993, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gaines County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 1491 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 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 272321 SVRMAF TXC165-280015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 620 PM CDT TUE APR 27 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST TEXAS ...GAINES COUNTY AT 620 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF SEMINOLE. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. WITH THIS MOVEMENT...THE CITY OF SEMINOLE SHOULD FEEL THE EFFECTS OF THE STORM BY 7 PM CDT. 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.
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, Apr 27, 3:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
TXZ013-014-016-051-053-NMZ013-272150- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 338 PM CDT TUE APR 27 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE INCREASING IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS... AT 325 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE INCREASING IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS. SMALL HAIL WAS REPORTED IN BALMORHEA DURING THE PAST HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE EAST OF SARAGOSA AND SOUTH OF FORT STOCKTON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN ALSO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS KILLER LIGHTNING AND FLOODING IN LOW-LYING PLACES. RAINSHOWERS WERE IN AN AREA FROM NORTH OF SAN ANGELO TO SOUTHWEST OF SNYDER. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST 15 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO NORTHEAST OF TATUM. MOVEMENT ON THESE THUNDERSTORMS WAS EAST 10 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR LATEST INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Apr 27, 4:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
TXZ013-014-016-051-053-NMZ013-272240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 435 PM CDT TUE APR 27 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER WEST TEXAS... AT 430 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED IN VICINITY OF PLAINS AND NORTHWEST OF SANDERSON. THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED FROM WEST OF LUBBOCK TO NORTH OF CARLSBAD NEW MEXICO EXTENDING SOUTH TO WEST AND NORTH OF SANDERSON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST 15 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR LATEST INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Apr 27, 5:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
TXZ013-014-016-051-053-NMZ013-272240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 435 PM CDT TUE APR 27 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER WEST TEXAS... AT 430 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED IN VICINITY OF PLAINS AND NORTHWEST OF SANDERSON. THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED FROM WEST OF LUBBOCK TO NORTH OF CARLSBAD NEW MEXICO EXTENDING SOUTH TO WEST AND NORTH OF SANDERSON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST 15 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR LATEST INFORMATION AND PO SSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Apr 27, 5:30 PM CDT, 50 minutes before
TXZ013-014-016-051-053-NMZ013-272340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 527 PM CDT TUE APR 27 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER WEST TEXAS... AT 525 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED IN VICINITY OF PLAINS...IN VICINITY OF WINK...SOUTHWEST AND NORTHWEST OF SANDERSON. THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED FROM WEST OF LUBBOCK TO NORTHEAST OF CARLSBAD NEW MEXICO EXTENDING SOUTH TO VICINITY OF BIG BEND. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST 15 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR LATEST IfNFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
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.