Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1995, 2:52 PM CDT for Glasscock County, Texas. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 1995, 2:52 PM CDT (19:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1995, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Glasscock County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -157 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1497 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KMAF 261952 RRA SVRMAF TXC173-262045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 252 PM CDT MON JUN 26 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST TEXAS ...EASTERN GLASSCOCK COUNTY AT 251 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES EAST OF GARDEN CITY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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 26, 11:00 AM CDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-270500- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1100 AM CDT (1000 AM MDT) MON JUN 26 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: ADEQUATE MOISTURE IN THE AREA AND AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE EXPECTED LATER TODAY WILL COMBINE TO GIVE THE AREA A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL BEING THE MAIN THREAT. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. EARLE
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 2:43 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-262050- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 243 PM CDT (143 PM MDT) MON JUN 26 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP OVER PORTIONS OF THE PERMIAN BASIN... AT 230 PM CDT... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS... SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... WERE LOCATED IN AN AREA FROM NEAR GARDEN CITY... TO 10 MILES NORTH OF ROBERT LEE... TO NEAR EDEN AND TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF ELDORADO. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF GARDEN CITY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS. MOVEMENT HAD NOT BEEN DETERMINED. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Nearby
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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.