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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 28, 1993Martin County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 1993, 5:24 PM CDT for Martin County, Texas. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 28, 1993, 5:24 PM CDT (22:24 UTC)
Expired
Apr 28, 1993, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Martin County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 326 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1993-04-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 285 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1993-04-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 113 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
285 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-89 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
688 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
147 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.3

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 27, 7:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews58 min
Apr 27, 8:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews61 min
Apr 28, 4:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane58 min
Apr 28, 4:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor55 min
Apr 28, 5:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMidland113 min
Apr 28, 6:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBorden61 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.