Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 224, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1995, 8:57 PM CDT for Glasscock County, Howard County, Texas. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 1995, 8:57 PM CDT (01:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1995, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Glasscock County, TX, Howard County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 808 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2878 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
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 23, 3:34 PM CDT, 5 hours 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, 4 hours 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 23, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 48 min |
| Jun 23, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 41 min |
| Jun 23, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 65 min |
| Jun 23, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 69 min |
| Jun 23, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector, Midland | 67 min |
| Jun 23, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden | 58 min |
| Jun 23, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 24 min |
| Jun 24, 6:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 33 min |
| Jun 24, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 35 min |
| Jun 24, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 48 min |
| Jun 24, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos, Terrell | 33 min |
| Jun 23, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | De Baca | 63 min |
| Jun 23, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Chaves, Lea | 48 min |
| Jun 23, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Chaves | 40 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.