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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 10, 1994Midland County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1994, 1:57 PM CDT for Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 10, 1994, 1:57 PM CDT (18:57 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 1994, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Midland County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 18 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 780 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 617 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 264 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 3.2

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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 10, 8:30 AM CDT, 5 hours 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 10, 8:33 AM CDT, 5 hours 24 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 10, 9:30 AM CDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before

TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ029-101545-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
930 AM CDT TUE MAY 10 1994

AT 925 AM CDT...AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME VERY HEAVY...WAS
LOCATED FROM NEAR GUADALUPE PASS TO NORTHWEST OF ABILENE. THE
HEAVIEST STORM WAS EAST OF BIG SPRING. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT
25 MILES AN HOUR.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE
LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.

Special weather statement, May 10, 9:34 AM CDT, 4 hours 23 minutes before

TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ029-101545-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
930 AM CDT TUE MAY 10 1994

AT 925 AM CDT...AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME VERY HEAVY...WAS
LOCATED FROM NEAR GUADALUPE PASS TO NORTHWEST OF ABILENE. THE
HEAVIEST STORM WAS EAST OF BIG SPRING. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT
25 MILES AN HOUR.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE
LATEST UPDhATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.

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, 4:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Winkler	58 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.