Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 271, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 1995, 7:12 PM CDT for Terrell County, Texas. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 21, 1995, 7:12 PM CDT (00:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 1995, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Terrell County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 191 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 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
Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 1064 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2489 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 220014 RRA SVRMAF TXC443-220045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 712 PM CDT FRI JUL 21 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST TEXAS ...WESTERN TERRELL COUNTY AND SOUTHERN PECOS COUNTY AT 712 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF SANDERSON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE WITH THIpS STORM. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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 21, 4:52 PM CDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
TXZ058-075-212255- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 452 PM CDT FRI JUL 21 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS OF TEXAS... AT 435 PM CDT...WIND GUSTS OF 35 MILES AN HOUR WERE REPORTED IN FORT STOCKTON FROM THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AREA. MARFA HAD REPORTED PEA TO MARBLE-SIZED HAIL WITH ANOTHER STORM. THESE STORMS WERE PART OF AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED ALONG THE DAVIS AND GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF TEXAS AND NEW MEXICO INTO THE TRANS-PECOS OF TEXAS. THIS PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING SLOWLY EAST AT ABOUT 10 MILES AN HOUR. 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.
Special weather statement, Jul 21, 4:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
TXZ058-075-212255- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 452 PM CDT FRI JUL 21 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER THE DAVIS MOUNTAINS OF TEXAS... AT 435 PM CDT...WIND GUSTS OF 35 MILES AN HOUR WERE REPORTED IN FORT STOCKTON FROM THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AREA. MARFA HAD REPORTED PEA TO MARBLE-SIZED HAIL WITH ANOTHER STORM. THESE STORMS WERE PART OF AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED ALONG THE DAVIS AND GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF TEXAS AND NEW MEXICO INTO THE TRANS-PECOS OF TEXAS. THIS PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING SLOWLY EAST AT ABOUT 10 MILES AN HOUR. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASJING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Jul 21, 5:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-212335- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 529 PM CDT (429 PM MDT) FRI JUL 21 1995 AT 525 PM CDT (425 PM MDT)...WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS... SOME WITH HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL... AND SHOWERS EXTENDED FROM WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS AND EASTERN SECTIONS OF NEW MEXICO INTO THE BIG BEND OF TEXAS. THE HEAVIEST AND GREATEST CONCENTRATION OF RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING FROM WEST OF LUBBOCK NEAR MORTON TO 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CARLSBAD. ANOTHER AREA OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL STRETCHED FROM MCCAMEY TO MARATHON. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT 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.
Special weather statement, Jul 21, 6:35 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-220040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 634 PM CDT (534 PM MDT) FRI JUL 21 1995 AT 625 PM CDT (525 PM MDT)...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL...EXTENDED FROM WEST OF LUBBOCK...WEST OF MORTON...TO 30 MILES EAST OF CARLSBAD NEW MEXICO...TO ODESSA TEXAS...TO THE RIO GRANDE RIVER...SOUTH OF SANDERSON. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS INDICATED JUST WEST OF SANDERSON AND 20 MILES EAST OF TATUM NEW MEXICO. AN AREA OF STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS WERE SPREADING FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS FROM EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO TO GARDEN CITY TEXAS. BLOWING DUST AND STRONG...GUSTY WINDS OF UP TO 40 MILES AN HOUR CAN BE EXPECTED TO SPREAD INTO THE REST OF THE PERMIAN BASIN...SOUTH OF A HOBBS NEW MEXICO...BIG SPRING TEXAS LINE BY 700 PM CDT. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 30 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.