Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 141, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1995, 6:10 PM CDT for Ward County, Texas. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 1995, 6:10 PM CDT (23:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1995, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ward County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 1796 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -171 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1205 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 5.3
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, Jun 2, 4:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-022235- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 433 PM CDT (333 PM MDT) FRI JUN 2 1995 AT 425 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED JUST SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 20 FROM MONAHANS TO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PECOS. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES EAST OF ALPINE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST-NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REACH THE VICINITY OF MONAHANS BY 530 PM CDT. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS THIS EVENING...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 5:36 PM CDT, 34 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-022340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 536 PM CDT (436 PM MDT) FRI JUN 2 1995 AT 525 PM CDT (425 PM MDT)...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL...EXTENDED FROM WINK TO MONAHANS...AND ALONG AND SOUTH OF I-20 TO THE CITY OF PECOS. OTHER STRONG STORMS EXTENDED FROM 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FORT STOCKTON TO THE RIO GRANDE RIVER IN THE BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE INDOORS AT THE SIGN OF THREATENING WEATHER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION FOR THE LASTEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane | 30 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.