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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1994, 4:17 AM CDT for Winkler County, Texas. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 1994, 4:17 AM CDT (09:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1994, 5:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Winkler County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 221 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1813 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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
Local storm report, May 9, 11:29 PM CDT, 4 hours 48 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1129 PM CDT MON MAY 9 1994
...REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS OCCURRING ON MAY 10, 1994...
TIME COUNTY EVENT
0411 AM CDT WINKLER SPOTTER REPORTED 3/4 INCH
TXC495 HAIL NE OF KERMIT FOR
5 MINUTES.
0420 AM CDT WINKLER SHERIFF'S OFFICE REPORTED
TXC495 3/4 INCH HAIL.
500 PM CDT HOWARD
TXC227 WIND DAMAGE TO SMALL
BUILDING REPORTED BY
SKYWARN SPOTTER.
910 PM CDT LEA JAL POLICE REPORTED
NMC025 3/4 INCH HAIL 10
MILES SOUTHWEST OF
JAL.
921 PM CDT LEA JAL POLICE REPORTED
NM025 3/4 INCH TO 13/4
INCH HAIL 10 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF JAL.
2247 PM CDT ANDREWS SHERIFF'S OFFICE
TXC003 REPORTED 13/4 INCH
HAIL HW 181 AND 115
INTERSECTION.The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 66 min |
| May 9, 7:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 55 min |
| May 10, 12:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 46 min |
| May 10, 1:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 67 min |
| May 10, 2:18 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Reeves | 42 min |
| May 10, 2:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 62 min |
| May 10, 3:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Loving, Ward | 63 min |
| May 10, 1:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 63 min |
| May 10, 2:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Midland | 56 min |
| May 10, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 55 min |
| May 10, 3:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Howard | 4 hr |
| May 10, 6:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 3 hr |
| May 10, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Chaves | 50 min |
| May 10, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Chaves | 65 min |
| May 10, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | De Baca | 62 min |
| May 10, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 65 min |
| May 10, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | De Baca | 49 min |
| May 10, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Chaves, Eddy | 60 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.