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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 290, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 25, 1995, 12:29 AM CDT for Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 23 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 25, 1995, 12:29 AM CDT (05:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 1995, 12:52 AM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Midland County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:33 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 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 18 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
- 443 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2257 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 250529 RRA SVRMAF TXC329-250600- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1229 AM CDT MON SEP 25 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST TEXAS ...EASTERN MIDLAND COUNTY AT 1229 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CONTINUED TO BE INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR IN EXTREME EASTERN MIDLAND COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. 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 SHElLTER... 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, Sep 24, 6:33 PM CDT, 5 hours 56 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-250035- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 633 PM CDT (533 PM MDT) SUN SEP 24 1995 AT 625 PM CDT (525 PM MDT)... AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM... WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL... WAS LOCATED 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF STERLING CITY... JUST ENTERING NORTHWESTERN COKE COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE LOCATED FROM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CARLSBAD NEW MEXICO... TO 15 MILES WEST OF JAL NEW MEXICO... TO NEAR FORT STOCKTON AND TO NEAR ALPINE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 24, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews, Gaines | 46 min |
| Sep 24, 10:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 49 min |
| Sep 24, 11:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Andrews | 25 min |
| Sep 24, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 40 min |
| Sep 24, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 30 min |
| Sep 24, 11:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 52 min |
| Sep 25, 12:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 52 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1995Every 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.