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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

March 25, 1995Glasscock County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 1995, 4:19 AM CST for Glasscock County, Texas. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 25, 1995, 4:19 AM CST (10:19 UTC)
Expired: Mar 25, 1995, 5:00 AM CST
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Glasscock County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 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.

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3749 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 61 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 
TTAA00 KMAF 251022 RRA
SVRMAF
TXC173-251100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
419 AM CST SAT MAR 25 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST TEXAS
 
   ...GLASSCOCK COUNTY
 
AT 416 AM CST...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF GARDEN CITY IN GLASSCOCK COUNTY MOVING NORTHEAST AT NEAR 40 MILES AN
HOUR.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING STRIKES ...AND VERY H
V 
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME.
 
HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER CO
R 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE YOU SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELT
.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, Mar 25, 3:39 AM CST, 40 minutes before

TXZ051-052-061>063-068-069-075-082-251145-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
339 AM CST SAT MAR 25 1995

AT 325 AM CST...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS...SMALL HAIL AND
STRONG GUSTY WINDS WERE LOCATED NORTH OF FORT STOCKTON TO RANKIN AND
GARDEN CITY.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY
LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN.

IF SEVERE WEATHER IS OBSERVED...CONTACT YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR INFORMATION TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE.

#31

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 25, 1:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	68 min

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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.