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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 7, 1993Upton County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1993, 4:11 PM CDT for Upton County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 7, 1993, 4:11 PM CDT (21:11 UTC)
Expired
May 7, 1993, 5:15 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Upton County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 66 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1993-05-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 968 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1993-05-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 62 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
968 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-154 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1105 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 7, 2:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane68 min
May 7, 3:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFUpton61 min
May 7, 3:48 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFCrane57 min
May 7, 5:02 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFUpton3 hr
May 7, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFUpton60 min
May 7, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos65 min
May 7, 6:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFUpton62 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.