Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 1994, 5:09 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 24, 1994, 5:09 PM CDT (22:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 1994, 5:39 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pecos County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 974 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 242211 SVRMAF TXC371-242245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 509 PM CDT SUN APR 24 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST TEXAS ...SOUTHEASTERN PECOS COUNTY AT 500 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER IRAAN IN SOUTHEASTERN PECOS COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST 20 MILES AN HOUR. 1/2 HALF INCH HAIL HAD BEEN REPORTED IN THIS THUNDERSTORM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RAADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCC\URRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. &
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, Apr 24, 3:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ029-242130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 329 PM CDT (229 PM MDT) SUN APR 24 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER PARTS OF WEST TEXAS... AT 325 PM CDT...WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE LOCATED IN AN AREA FROM 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT STOCKTON...TO NEAR JAYTON AND TO NEAR BALLINGER. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR RANKIN AND 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF BLACKWELL. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. AT SIGNS OF AN I<MPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Apr 24, 4:34 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ029-242235- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 433 PM CDT (333 PM MDT) SUN APR 24 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONTINUING TO DEVELOP OVER PARTS OF WEST TEXAS... AT 425 PM CDT...WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE LOCATED IN AN AREA FROM NEAR SHEFFIELD...TO NEAR RANKIN...TO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF JAYTON AND TO NEAR BALLINGER. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTH OF RANKIN AND 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MERKEL. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WIND...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
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.