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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 159, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 4, 1995Borden County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1995, 7:53 PM CDT for Borden County, Texas. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 4, 1995, 7:53 PM CDT (00:53 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 1995, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Borden County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 114 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 1995-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3212 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 1995-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 99 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
3212 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1272 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
172 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.1
Supercell composite
13.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 050054 RRA
SVRMAF
TXC033-050200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
753 PM CDT SUN JUN 4 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST TEXAS
 
   ...BORDEN COUNTY
 
AT 752 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES
NORTHEAST OF GAIL MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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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, Jun 4, 2:27 PM CDT, 5 hours 26 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-042030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
226 PM CDT (126 PM MDT) SUN JUN 4 1995

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTH PLAINS
AND PERMIAN BASIN UNTIL 300 PM CDT...

AT 225 PM CDT (125 PM MDT)...A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY
RAINFALL AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL WAS LOCATED 6 MILES EAST OF HOBBS
IN EXTREME EASTERN GAINES COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT
25 MILES AN HOUR.

THIS STORM WAS PART OF A LINE OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SHOWERS THAT EXTENDED FROM PLAINVIEW TO 6
MILES EAST OF HOBBS.

SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY
LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN.

IF SEVERE WEATHER IS OBSERVED...CONTACT YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR INFORMATION TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 7:10 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFDawson65 min
Jun 4, 7:24 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFMartin46 min
Jun 4, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews30 min
Jun 4, 8:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMartin49 min
Jun 4, 8:54 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFAndrews51 min
Jun 4, 9:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMartin52 min
Jun 4, 9:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews66 min
Jun 4, 9:55 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFAndrews50 min
Jun 4, 10:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews50 min
Jun 4, 10:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos47 min
Jun 4, 11:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFDawson30 min
Jun 4, 11:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFDawson41 min
Jun 5, 12:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBorden69 min
Jun 5, 12:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFUpton60 min
Jun 5, 1:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos45 min
Jun 5, 2:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFUpton46 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.