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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 12, 1994Borden County, Howard County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 1994, 6:13 PM CDT for Borden County, Howard County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 12, 1994, 6:13 PM CDT (23:13 UTC)
Expired
May 12, 1994, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Borden County, TX, Howard County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 96 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 1994-05-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 612 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 1994-05-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 178 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
612 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-154 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
770 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
178 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
162 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.9

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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 11, 7:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFHoward58 min
May 11, 7:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFHoward118 min
May 11, 7:23 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFPecos3 hr
May 11, 7:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFUpton68 min
May 11, 8:46 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFUpton3 hr
May 11, 9:14 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFGlasscock3 hr
May 12, 12:51 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFAndrews, Gaines3 hr
May 12, 1:18 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFEctor57 min
May 12, 1:49 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFCrane, Pecos56 min
May 12, 2:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor62 min
May 12, 3:03 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFPecos117 min
May 12, 3:03 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFUpton117 min
May 12, 3:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines59 min
May 12, 3:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor65 min
May 12, 4:52 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFMidland59 min
May 12, 5:05 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFPecos3 hr
May 12, 5:05 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFUpton3 hr
May 12, 5:39 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFMartin2 hr
May 11, 7:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea56 min
May 11, 8:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea55 min
May 12, 9:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFLea5 hr
May 12, 12:30 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFEddy45 min
May 12, 2:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFLea5 hr

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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.