Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1994, 3:18 PM CDT for Upton County, Texas. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 1994, 3:18 PM CDT (20:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 1994, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Upton County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 464 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -190 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1509 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 25, 2:39 PM CDT, 39 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ029-252040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 235 PM CDT (135 PM MDT) WED MAY 25 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR BORDAN...DAWSON...AND GAINES COUNTIES... AT 225 PM CDT...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING NORTHWEST OF SEMINOLE...SOUTH TO BETWEEN BAKERSFIELD AND GARDEN CITY. THE HEAVIEST RAINS WERE LOCATED NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST OF SEMINOLE AND NEAR LENORAH. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. 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. STAYED TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. vNJh .66WWUSf + 6WWUS ,q`WWUS2 l/6WWUS D#6WWUS L0XWSUSj 7q4WSUS d)`WWUSt D jyFTUWF+`WWUS X%6WWUSt 0v6WWUSF dMFPCN WWUS: P/f WUUS @3U^WSUS V9}FTCN`-b6WWUS &WWCN OhuFTUW
Special weather statement, May 25, 2:39 PM CDT, 39 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ029-252040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 235 PM CDT (135 PM MDT) WED MAY 25 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR BORDAN...DAWSON...AND GAINES COUNTIES... AT 225 PM CDT...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING NORTHWEST OF SEMINOLE...SOUTH TO BETWEEN BAKERSFIELD AND GARDEN CITY. THE HEAVIEST RAINS WERE LOCATED NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST OF SEMINOLE AND NEAR LENORAH. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. 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. STAYED TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. vNJh .66WWUSf + 6WWUS ,q`WWUS2 l/6WWUS D#6WWUS L0XWSUSj 7q4WSUS d)`WWUSt D jyFTUWF+`WWUS X%6WWUSt 0v6WWUSF dMFPCN WWUS: P/f WUUS @3U^WSUS V9}FTCN`-b6WWUS &WWCN OhuFTUW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 28 min |
| May 25, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane | 32 min |
| May 25, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 65 min |
| May 25, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 66 min |
| May 25, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Martin | 55 min |
| May 25, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden | 58 min |
| May 25, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 55 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.