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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 181, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 9, 1995Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1995, 10:25 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 1995, 10:25 PM CDT (03:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 1995, 11:30 PM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Pecos County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 139 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3699 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 9, 7:12 PM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 9, 7:13 PM CDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	56 min
Jun 9, 8:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos	60 min
Jun 9, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	60 min
Jun 10, 3:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reeves	68 min
Jun 10, 4:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos	56 min
Jun 10, 5:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos	59 min
Jun 10, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	62 min
Jun 10, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	68 min
Jun 10, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson	57 min
Jun 10, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden	56 min
Jun 10, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	67 min
Jun 10, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Winkler	65 min
Jun 10, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	68 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1995 Every 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.