Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 140, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 24, 1993, 7:06 PM CDT for Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 24, 1993, 7:06 PM CDT (00:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 24, 1993, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Midland County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 18 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
- 643 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1833 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Sep 24, 4:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-242245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 444 PM CDT (344 PM MDT) FRI SEP 24 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING OVER THE TRANS-PECOS AREA... AT 430 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM 15 MILES WEST OF FORT STOCKTON...TO FORT DAVIS...AND NORTHWESTWARD INTO CENTRAL CULBERSON COUNTY. MOSTLY LIGHT RAIN ACCOMPANYING THESE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED AS FAR SOUTHWEST OF A MARFA-VAN HORN LINE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 10 MILES AN HOUR...WHICH MEANS THAT THE CITIES OF SARAGOSA...BALMORHEA...AND FORT STOCKTON COULD RECEIVE HEAVY RAIN BY 530 PM CDT. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Sep 24, 4:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-242245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 444 PM CDT (344 PM MDT) FRI SEP 24 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING OVER THE TRANS-PECOS AREA... AT 430 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM 15 MILES WEST OF FORT STOCKTON...TO FORT DAVIS...AND NORTHWESTWARD INTO CENTRAL CULBERSON COUNTY. MOSTLY LIGHT RAIN ACCOMPANYING THESE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED AS FAR SOUTHWEST OF A MARFA-VAN HORN LINE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 10 MILES AN HOUR...WHICH MEANS THAT THE CITIES OF SARAGOSA...BALMORHEA...AND FORT STOCKTON COULD RECEIVE HEAVY RAIN BY 530 PM CDT. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Sep 24, 5:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-242345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 544 PM CDT (444 PM MDT) FRI SEP 24 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ALONG THE PECOS RIVER... AT 535 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM THE PECOS RIVER AT GRANDFALLS...TO JUST NORTHEAST OF FORT STOCKTON...TO 30 MILES NORTH OF MARATHON. HEAVY RAIN WAS ALSO LOCATED IN THE VICINITY OF ALPINE...BALMORHEA...AND SARAGOSA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. AT THIS RATE OF SPEED...THE CITIES OF CRANE...MCCAMEY...AND BAKERSFIELD CAN EXPECT POSSIBLY HEAVY RAIN BY 630 PM CDT. MOSTLY LIGHT RAIN ACCOMPANYING THESE THUNDERSTORMS WAS SCATTERED FROM THE BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK AT PRESIDIO TO AS FAR NORTH AS HOBBS NEW MEXICO. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Sep 24, 5:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-242345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 544 PM CDT (444 PM MDT) FRI SEP 24 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ALONG THE PECOS RIVER... AT 535 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM THE PECOS RIVER AT GRANDFALLS...TO JUST NORTHEAST OF FORT STOCKTON...TO 30 MILES NORTH OF MARATHON. HEAVY RAIN WAS ALSO LOCATED IN THE VICINITY OF ALPINE...BALMORHEA...AND SARAGOSA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. AT THIS RATE OF SPEED...THE CITIES OF CRANE...MCCAMEY...AND BAKERSFIELD CAN EXPECT POSSIBLY HEAVY RAIN BY 630 PM CDT. MOSTLY LIGHT RAIN ACCOMPANYING THESE THUNDERSTORMS WAS SCATTERED FROM THE BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK AT PRESIDIO TO AS FAR NORTH AS HOBBS NEW MEXICO. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 24, 7:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Midland | 118 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.