Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1993, 6:50 PM CDT for Howard County, Texas. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 1993, 6:50 PM CDT (23:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 1993, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Howard County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 314 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
- 547 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -374 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 823 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, May 5, 5:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 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 13 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden | 66 min |
| May 5, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 62 min |
| May 5, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden | 62 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993
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.