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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 229, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 24, 1995Pecos County, Terrell County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1995, 6:27 PM CDT for Pecos County, Terrell County, Texas. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 24, 1995, 6:27 PM CDT (23:27 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 1995, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties Pecos County, TX, Terrell County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:29 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 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 468 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -320 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1350 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 114 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 174 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.0

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The text

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

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TXC371-443-250000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
627 PM CDT SAT JUN 24 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN WEST TEXAS
 
   ...EASTERN PECOS COUNTY...NORTHERN TERRELL COUNTY
 
AT 625 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN THE
VICINITY OF SHEFFIELD. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN
AND NEAR SHEFFIELD SHOULD TAKE COVER NOW!
 
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.

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 24, 3:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before

TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-242135-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
332 PM CDT (232 PM MDT) SAT JUN 24 1995

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS...

AT 329 PM CDT (229 PM MDT)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG
GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL...IN FAR SOUTHERN PECOS COUNTY
ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTH OF FORT STOCKTON.

ALSO...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED IN
PRESIDIO COUNTY BETWEEN MARFA AND PRESIDIO.

MOVEMENT OF ALL THE STORMS WAS SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY
RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. BE PREPARED TO
MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE SHOULD THESE STORMS MOVE TOWARD YOUR AREA.

LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION
STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

Special weather statement, Jun 24, 4:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before

TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-242240-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
436 PM CDT (336 PM MDT) SAT JUN 24 1995

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN FAR SOUTHWEST TEXAS...

AT 425 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL
WERE WIDELY SCATTERED FROM MARFA TO THE WESTERN BIG BEND
PARK...ALONG AND SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 90 15 MILES EAST OF MARATHON.
ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN THE VICINITY OF HIGHWAY 285 IN
SOUTHERN PECOS COUNTY.  THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
15 MILES AN HOUR.  PERSONS NEAR THESE STORMS SHOULD BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

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

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
436 PM CDT (336 PM MDT) SAT JUN 24 1995

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN FAR SOUTHWEST TEXAS...

AT 425 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL
WERE WIDELY SCATTERED FROM MARFA TO THE WESTERN BIG BEND
PARK...ALONG AND SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 90 15 MILES EAST OF MARATHON.
ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN THE VICINITY OF HIGHWAY 285 IN
SOUTHERN PECOS COUNTY.  THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
15 MILES AN HOUR.  PERSONS NEAR THESE STORMS SHOULD BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION
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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 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, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Howard	63 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

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.