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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 8, 1995Crane County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1995, 6:44 PM CDT for Crane County, Texas. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 1995, 6:44 PM CDT (23:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1995, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
61 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 23:45 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 12:00Z, 11.7 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4480 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 1995-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 121 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
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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 082344 RRA
SVRMAF
TXC103-090045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
644 PM CDT THU JUN 8 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST TEXAS
 
   ...CRANE COUNTY
 
AT 644 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES
WEST OF CRANE ON HIGHWAY 329. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 20
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.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 3:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos54 min
Jun 8, 4:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane66 min
Jun 8, 4:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos51 min
Jun 8, 5:02 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFCrane, Pecos58 min
Jun 8, 5:44 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFCrane61 min
Jun 8, 6:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFUpton47 min
Jun 8, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFWard53 min

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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.