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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 209, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 22, 1995Ector County, Midland County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1995, 9:50 PM CDT for Ector County, Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 22, 1995, 9:50 PM CDT (02:50 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 1995, 10:45 PM CDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

Counties Ector County, TX, Midland County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:50 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 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 12 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 1995-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 462 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 1995-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 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
462 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2919 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 230252 RRA
SVRMAF
TXC135-329-230345-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
950 PM CDT THU JUN 22 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN WEST TEXAS
 
   ...ECTOR COUNTY...MIDLAND COUNTY
 
AT 948 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN THE VICINITY OF
ODESSA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.  PERSONS IN MIDLAND AND
ECTOR COUNTY SHOULD PREPARE FOR WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55...DEADLY
LIGHTNING... AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.

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 22, 8:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-230240-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
834 PM CDT (734 PM MDT) THU JUN 22 1995

AT 830 PM CDT (730 PM)...THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL
AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL WERE LOCATED 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SEMINOLE
AND ON THE ANDREWS LEA COUNTY LINE 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF JAL.
MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS PART OF A LINE OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...
SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL... AND SHOWERS THAT EXTENDED FROM WHITE
FACE TO THE BIG BEND OF TEXAS.  THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN THIS LINE
PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE LOCATED JUST WEST BROWNFIELD AND
ALSO FROM 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF PECOS TO 25 MILES SOUTH OF PECOS.
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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 7:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReeves37 min
Jun 22, 9:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFDawson50 min
Jun 22, 9:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMartin68 min
Jun 23, 4:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos28 min
Jun 23, 4:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines3 hr
Jun 23, 5:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos49 min
Jun 23, 5:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines66 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.