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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 28, 1993Howard County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 1993, 11:33 PM CDT for Howard County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 28, 1993, 11:33 PM CDT (04:33 UTC)
Expired
Apr 29, 1993, 12:30 AM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Howard County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 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 00:00Z on 1993-04-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1504 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 00:00Z on 1993-04-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 37 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1504 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1482 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 28, 9:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews66 min
Apr 29, 10:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLoving66 min
Apr 28, 8:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea69 min
Apr 29, 10:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy53 min

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.