Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 174, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1995, 4:09 PM CDT for Crane County, Texas. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1995, 4:09 PM CDT (21:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1995, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crane County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 4480 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 743 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 13.1
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 8, 11:38 AM CDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-090500- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1137 AM CDT (1037 AM MDT) THU JUN 8 1995 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST TEXAS: ANDREWS DAWSON GLASSCOCK MARTIN REEVES WARD BORDEN ECTOR HOWARD MIDLAND TERRELL WINKLER CRANE GAINES LOVING PECOS UPTON AND IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO: EDDY LEA SYNOPSIS: A STRONG UPPER-LEVEL STORM SYSTEM WILL BEGIN TO MOVE FROM THE GREAT BASIN TOWARD THE PLAINS STATES THIS EVENING. THE DRYLINE IS EXPECTED TO SLOWLY MOVE INTO WEST TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON...REACHING AN EAST OF LUBBOCK-BIG SPRING-SANDERSON LINE. THE ATMOSPHERE TO THE EAST OF THE DRYLINE IS MOIST AND VERY UNSTABLE. RAPID THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING GENERALLY NORTHEAST AND EAST OF THE MIDLAND/ODESSA AREA AS AN UPPER-LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHES FROM THE WEST. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. MEAD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 54 min |
| Jun 8, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 51 min |
| Jun 8, 5:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Crane, Pecos | 58 min |
| Jun 8, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Crane | 61 min |
| Jun 8, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 47 min |
| Jun 8, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ward | 53 min |
| Jun 8, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane | 61 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.