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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 31, 1995Dawson County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1995, 4:47 PM CDT for Dawson County, Texas. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 31, 1995, 4:47 PM CDT (21:47 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 1995, 5:15 PM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Dawson County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 91 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 1995-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 847 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 1995-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 144 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
847 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
682 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
144 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
248 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
3.7

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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 31, 3:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos66 min
May 31, 5:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFHoward39 min
May 31, 5:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMartin67 min
May 31, 5:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBorden42 min
May 31, 5:31 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFBorden59 min
May 30, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEddy49 min
May 30, 8:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea63 min
May 30, 9:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFLea59 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.