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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 4, 1995Howard County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 4, 1995, 12:20 AM CDT for Howard County, Texas. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 4, 1995, 12:20 AM CDT (05:20 UTC)
Expired
Apr 4, 1995, 1:15 AM CDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Howard County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 82 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 1995-04-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 8 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 1995-04-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -5 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3127 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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

Special weather statement, Apr 3, 6:42 PM CDT, 5 hours 38 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-040045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
642 PM CDT (542 PM MDT) MON APR 3 1995

...THUNDERSTORM ROLLING ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND PARTS OF WEST
TEXAS...

AT 630 PM CDT (530 MDT)... THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY
RAINFALL... POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL... AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WERE MOVING
THROUGH LEA COUNTY NEW MEXICO.  THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE
LOCATED 25 MILES WEST OF TATUM... JUST SOUTHEAST OF MALJAMAR... AND
JUST SOUTHEAST OF HOBBS.  THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN
HOUR.

OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORM WERE WIDLEY SCATTERED ACROSS SOUTHERN
SECTIONS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS AND NORTHEASTERN SECTIONS OF THE
PERMAIN BASIN... MAINLY BETWEEN GAIL AND BIG SPRING.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO OCCURRING BETWEEN FORT STOCKTON...
MARATHON... AND SANDERSON.

ALL MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...STRONG GUSTY
WINDS... FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN.
IF YOU PLAN TO BE OUTDOORS THIS EVENING...CHECK THE LATEST WEATHER
INFORMATION AND KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY
.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 3, 7:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines67 min
Apr 3, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFHoward63 min
Apr 3, 8:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFDawson44 min
Apr 3, 8:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFDawson64 min
Apr 3, 9:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFDawson, Martin58 min
Apr 3, 9:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMartin62 min
Apr 3, 10:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFHoward65 min
Apr 3, 10:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFHoward69 min
Apr 3, 10:45 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFHoward45 min
Apr 3, 11:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFHoward2 hr
Apr 3, 11:00 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFHoward2 hr
Apr 3, 11:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGlasscock, Howard69 min
Apr 3, 11:27 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFGlasscock, Howard44 min
Apr 4, 12:20 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFHoward2 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.