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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 247, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 27, 1995Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1995, 4:24 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 27, 1995, 4:24 PM CDT (21:24 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 1995, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Pecos County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 139 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: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -402 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1305 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 219 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KMAF 272124 RRA
SVRMAF
TXC371-272215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
424 PM CDT TUE JUN 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST TEXAS
 
   ...WESTERN PECOS COUNTY
 
AT 422 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES WEST OF FORT STOCKTON. MOVEMENT WAS
NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY CROSS INTERSTATE
10 APPROXIMATELY 20 MILES WEST OF FORT STOCKTON BY 440 PM CDT.
 
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 27, 11:13 AM CDT, 5 hours 11 minutes before

TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-280500-

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1113 AM CDT (1013 AM MDT) TUE JUN 27 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:  AFTERNOON HEATING AND LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL COMBINE TO
PRODUCE ENOUGH INSTABILITY TO ALLOW FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT
DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING... SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD
REACH SEVERE LIMITS EAST OF A LINE FROM THE NEW MEXICO/TEXAS
BORDER... TO WINK AND TO EAST OF SANDERSON.  THE MAIN THREAT OF
SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE LARGE HAIL.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.

EARLE

Special weather statement, Jun 27, 3:31 PM CDT, 53 minutes before

TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-272135-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
331 PM CDT (231 PM MDT) TUE JUN 27 1995

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE BEGINNING TO DEVELOP OVER PARTS OF WEST
TEXAS...

AT 325 PM CDT (225 PM MDT)... A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN
WAS LOCATED 30 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF FORT STOCKTON.  MOVEMENT WAS
EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

OTHER SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS... SOME WITH VERY HEAVY
RAIN... WERE LOCATED IN AN AREA FROM NEAR ALPINE... TO 10 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF SHAFTER... TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF SIERRA BLANCA AND TO 10
MILES NORTHWEST OF CARLSBAD.

THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ALPINE.

MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

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.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 12:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	63 min
Jun 27, 12:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson	69 min
Jun 27, 1:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	68 min
Jun 27, 1:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	66 min

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.