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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 264, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1995, 4:51 PM CDT for Glasscock County, Texas. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 1995, 4:51 PM CDT (21:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 1995, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 69 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 22:10 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, 9.9 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
- 1828 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -119 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1256 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 052151 RRA SVRMAF TXC173-052300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 451 PM CDT WED JUL 5 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST TEXAS ...GLASSCOCK COUNTY AT 450 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN THE VICINTITY OF GARDEN CITY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS THUNDERSTORM IS STRONG WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. 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, Jul 5, 11:51 AM CDT, 5 hours before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-060500- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1151 AM CDT (1051 AM MDT) WED JUL 5 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 SURFACE BOUNDARY THAT WAS DRAPED FROM EAST TO WEST ACROSS THE PERMIAN BASIN HAS ALLOWED CONSIDERABLE LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE TO POOL ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN PART OF THE OUTLOOK AREA...MAKING THE ATMOSPHERE QUITE UNSTABLE. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOULD STAY SOUTH AND EAST OF WINK TEXAS. THIS AREA INCLUDES MIDLAND AND ODESSA. DUE TO THE CONSIDERABLE INSTABILITY PRESENT IN THE AREA OF CONCERN ...SOME OF THE STORMS THAT FORM COULD BECOME SEVERE. MOVEMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE EAST TO SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THERE IS ALSO A POSSIBILITY OF LOCALIZED FLOODING IF NEW THUNDERSTORMS REPEATEDLY TRAVEL ALONG THE SURFACE BOUNDARY. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED SOUTH AND EAST OF WINK TEXAS. TURNAGE
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 4:21 PM CDT, 30 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050-051-061>063-068-075-082-052155- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 421 PM CDT WED JUL 5 1995 ...THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE PERMIAN BASIN AND CONCHO VALLEY UNTIL 1000 PM CDT... SOME OF THE COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THIS WATCH ARE MARTIN... HOWARD... MITCHELL... ECTOR... MIDLAND... GLASSCOCK... UPTON... REAGAN... PECOS... AND TERRELL. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS SHOULD WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 4:31 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-052235- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 431 PM CDT (331 PM MDT) WED JUL 5 1995 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE PERMIAN BASIN UNTIL 1000 PM CDT (900 PM MDT)... AT 425 PM CDT (325 MDT)...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL WAS LOCATED IN THE VICINITY OF STERLING CITY. THIS STORM WAS PART OF A LINE OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS... SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL... THAT EXTENDED FROM JUST EAST OF MIDLAND TO NEAR ROBERT LEA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS SHOULD WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS SHOULD WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. IF SEVERE WEATHER IS OBSERVED...CONTACT YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR INFORMATION TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
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.