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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1995, 4:57 PM CDT for Gaines County, Texas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 1995, 4:57 PM CDT (21:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1995, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gaines County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 650 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -351 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1542 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KMAF 232357 RRA SVRMAF TXC165-240045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 657 PM CDT FRI JUN 23 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 ...SOUTHERN GAINES COUNTY AT 655 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SEMINOLE. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT LESS THAN 10 MILES AN HOUR. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. AIR FORCE BASE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING ACROSS I-25 AT 520 PM MDT. THIS STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTHERN PUEBLO COUNTY EAST OF I-25 THROUGH 6 PM MDT. MOVEMENT OF THIS SEVERE STORM WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. IF SEVERE WEATHER IS OBSERVED...CONTACT YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR INFORMATION TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. & LARSON
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 23, 11:43 AM CDT, 5 hours 14 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-240500- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1143 AM CDT (1043 AM MDT) FRI JUN 23 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 COLD FRONT APPROACHING THE OUTLOOK AREA FROM THE NORTH WILL BE A FOCUS FOR SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. WITH AN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE AHEAD OF THIS FRONT...SOME STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. STORMS SHOULD FIRST DEVELOP IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE OUTLOOK AREA JUST AHEAD OF THE FRONT...AND ALSO ALONG THE DAVIS AND GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS THIS AFTERNOON. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS SHOULD BE SLOWLY SOUTH. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS...LOCALIZED FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. TURNAGE
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 1:42 PM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-231945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 142 PM CDT (1242 PM MDT) FRI JUN 23 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED EAST OF FORT DAVIS... AT 135 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL EXTENDED FROM JUST NORTH OF FORT DAVIS TO 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF ALPINE. MOVEMENT WAS SLOWLY SOUTHEAST AT LESS THAN 15 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE...ISOLATED STORMS HAD DEVELOPED NEAR GUADALUPE PEAK. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 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 23, 1:46 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-231945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 142 PM CDT (1242 PM MDT) FRI JUN 23 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED NEAR FORT DAVIS... AT 135 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL EXTENDED FROM JUST NORTH OF FORT DAVIS TO 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF ALPINE. MOVEMENT WAS SLOWLY SOUTHEAST AT LESS THAN 15 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE...ISOLATED STORMS HAD DEVELOPED NEAR GUADALUPE PEAK. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 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 23, 2:41 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-232045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 241 PM CDT (141 PM MDT) FRI JUN 23 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN THE DAVIS AND GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS... AT 235 PM CDT (135 PM MDT)...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL WAS LOCATED OVER HIGHWAY 90 MIDWAY BETWEEN ALPINE AND MARATHON. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...EXTENDED ALONG THE DAVIS AND GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS TO JUST WEST OF CARLSBAD NEW MEXICO. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 3:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-232135- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 334 PM CDT (234 PM MDT) FRI JUN 23 1995 AT 325 PM CDT (225 PM MDT)...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL...WERE SCATTERED FROM 30 MILES SOUTH OF ALPINE TEXAS...ALONG THE DAVIS AND GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS TO WEST OF CARLSBAD NEW MEXICO. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. DOPPLER RADAR HAD ESTIMATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1.5 INCHES IN THE VICINITY OF ALPINE. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 4:30 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-232235- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 430 PM CDT (330 PM MDT) FRI JUN 23 1995 AT 425 PM CDT (325 PM MDT)...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE SCATTERED FROM NEAR BLEDSOE...TO NEAR SANDERSON...TO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF TERLINGUA...AND TO NEAR SIERRA BLANCA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARATHON AND NEAR LOVINGTON NEW MEXICO. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 37 min |
| Jun 22, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Dawson | 50 min |
| Jun 22, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 68 min |
| Jun 22, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector, Midland | 55 min |
| Jun 23, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 28 min |
| Jun 23, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 49 min |
| Jun 23, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 66 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.