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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 5, 1993Borden County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1993, 6:43 PM CDT for Borden County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 5, 1993, 6:43 PM CDT (23:43 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 1993, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Borden County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 278 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 1993-05-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1144 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 1993-05-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -36 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
1144 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-205 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1722 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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 5, 5:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-060440-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
535 PM CDT (435 PM MDT) WED MAY 5 1993

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM FOR MOST
   OF WEST TEXAS...

AT 540 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL
WERE LOCATED NEAR LAMESA IN DAWSON COUNTY...NEAR LENORAH IN MARTIN
COUNTY AND NEAR SAN ANGELO IN TOM GREEN COUNTY.

THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR GAIL IN BORDEN COUNTY AND IN COKE
COUNTY NORTHEAST OF STERLING CITY.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE
LATEST UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS DANGEROUS
WEATHER SITUATION.
Special weather statement, May 5, 5:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
TXZ007-008-010>018-024-034-050>054-NMZ013-060440-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
535 PM CDT (435 PM MDT) WED MAY 5 1993

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM FOR MOST
   OF WEST TEXAS...

AT 540 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL
WERE LOCATED NEAR LAMESA IN DAWSON COUNTY...NEAR LENORAH IN MARTIN
COUNTY AND NEAR SAN ANGELO IN TOM GREEN COUNTY.

THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR GAIL IN BORDEN COUNTY AND IN COKE
COUNTY NORTHEAST OF STERLING CITY.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE
LATEST UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS DANGEROUS
WEATHER SITUATION.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 4:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBorden66 min
May 5, 5:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMartin62 min
May 5, 6:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFHoward55 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.