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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 117, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 29, 1995Andrews County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1995, 5:12 AM CDT for Andrews County, Texas. It was in force for 93 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 29, 1995, 5:12 AM CDT (10:12 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 1995, 6:45 AM CDT
In force
93 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Andrews County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 57 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 00:00Z on 1995-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 214 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 00:00Z on 1995-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 83 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
214 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-297 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1548 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
262 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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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

Local storm report, May 28, 11:33 PM CDT, 5 hours 39 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1132 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

314 PM     MIDKIFF 6S             TX      4.00 INCH HAIL
05/28/95   UPTON

704 PM     MCCAMEY                TX      0.75 INCH HAIL
05/28/95   UPTON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 7:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos38 min
May 28, 7:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMidland68 min
May 28, 8:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMidland66 min
May 28, 8:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGlasscock, Midland62 min
May 29, 2:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReeves68 min
May 29, 3:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLoving62 min
May 29, 4:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines66 min
May 29, 7:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMartin58 min
May 29, 8:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReeves, Ward61 min
May 29, 9:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFWinkler62 min
May 29, 12:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor33 min
May 29, 5:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos57 min
May 29, 1:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy68 min
May 29, 2:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy65 min
May 29, 2:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea68 min
May 29, 3:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea62 min
May 29, 4:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea58 min
May 29, 9:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea67 min

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.