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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 197, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 21, 1995Reeves County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1995, 9:32 PM CDT for Reeves County, Texas. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 21, 1995, 9:32 PM CDT (02:32 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 1995, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Reeves County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:34 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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 158 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: 665 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2424 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 21, 5:34 PM CDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 21, 5:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 21, 7:29 PM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before

TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-220130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
728 PM CDT (628 PM MDT) WED JUN 21 1995

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO...

AT 725 PM CDT (625 PM MDT)...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORM... SOME
WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL... STRETCHED FROM
WHITEFACE TO NEAR GUADALUPE PASS.  THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL STRETCHED
FROM NEAR TATUM TO 10 MILES WEST OF LOVINGTON.  THIS LINE WAS MOVING
EAST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR.

OTHER ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF MARFA
AND JUST NORTHEAST OF SARAGOSA.  RAIN SHOWERS WERE ALSO WIDELY
SCATTERED OVER THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS.  MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 10
MILES AN HOUR.

IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A
STORM APPROACHES.  MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED
VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN.  STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION
FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

Special weather statement, Jun 21, 8:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
830 PM CDT (730 PM MDT) WED JUN 21 1995

AT 825 PM CDT (725 PM CDT)...NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH
VERY HEAVY RAINFALL EXTENDED FROM 20 MILES EAST OF LUBBOCK TO
WHITEFACE AND SOUTHWEST TO NEAR ORLA. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS
LOCATED IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST EDDY COUNTY... NEAR PLAINS... AND
ALSO NEAR LEVELLAND.  MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND
SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS.  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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 21, 10:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Loving	26 min
Jun 22, 1:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	57 min
Jun 22, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Chaves	27 min
Jun 22, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	38 min
Jun 22, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	40 min
Jun 22, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	40 min
Jun 22, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy	41 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.