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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 11, 1994Crane County, Ward County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 1994, 5:13 PM CDT for Crane County, Ward County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 11, 1994, 5:13 PM CDT (22:13 UTC)
Expired
May 11, 1994, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Crane County, TX, Ward County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 79 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 1994-05-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1254 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 1994-05-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 259 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1254 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
623 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
259 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
291 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.0
Supercell composite
10.1

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 10, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLoving, Reeves45 min
May 10, 9:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews, Winkler66 min
May 10, 10:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor62 min
May 10, 11:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews55 min
May 11, 12:05 AM CDTTornado WarningMAFMartin, Midland40 min
May 11, 12:42 AM CDTTornado WarningMAFMartin48 min
May 11, 1:20 AM CDTTornado WarningMAFHoward40 min
May 11, 1:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFHoward61 min
May 11, 2:14 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFHoward3 hr
May 11, 3:08 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFHoward3 hr
May 11, 3:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFHoward91 min
May 11, 3:29 AM CDTTornado WarningMAFHoward46 min
May 11, 3:07 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFEctor68 min
May 11, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMidland60 min
May 11, 4:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMidland70 min
May 11, 5:20 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFMidland115 min
May 11, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMartin65 min
May 11, 5:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFWinkler69 min
May 11, 6:55 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFCrane2 hr
May 10, 7:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFChaves50 min
May 10, 8:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy52 min
May 10, 9:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea64 min
May 11, 5:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFChaves64 min
May 11, 6:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy63 min
May 11, 7:53 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFLea4 hr
May 11, 8:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea62 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.