Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 302, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 2, 1995, 2:06 PM CDT for Andrews County, Winkler County, Texas. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 2, 1995, 2:06 PM CDT (19:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 2, 1995, 2:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Andrews County, TX, Winkler County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:06 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 1690 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 902 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 286 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 021909 COR SVRMAF TXC003-495-021940- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED TEXT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 206 PM CDT MON OCT 2 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 240 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST TEXAS ...SOUTHWESTERN ANDREWS COUNTY ...NORTHEASTERN WINKLER COUNTY AT 204 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR 24 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF WINK MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES U,NLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. $$ TURNAGE
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, Oct 2, 8:35 AM CDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-021435- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY...CORRECTED ACTION STMT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 828 AM CDT (728 AM MDT) MON OCT 2 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONTINUING OVER PARTS OF WEST TEXAS... AT 825 AM CDT (725 AM MDT)... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS... SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... WERE LOCATED IN AN AREA FROM NEAR DICKENS... TO 10 MILES WEST OF SANDERSON... TO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF BOQUILLAS... TO 15 MILES SOUTH OF VAN HORN AND TO NEAR LOVINGTON NEW MEXICO. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED 8 MILE NORTHWEST OF MIDLAND AND 4 MILES EAST OF GAIL. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 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 LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER UPDATES.
Special weather statement, Oct 2, 9:33 AM CDT, 4 hours 33 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-021535- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 932 AM CDT (832 AM MDT) MON OCT 2 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONTINUING TO MOVE OVER PORTIONS OF WEST TEXAS... AT 925 AM CDT (825 AM MDT)... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS... SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... WERE LOCATED IN AN AREA FROM NEAR PETERSBURG... TO NEAR JAYTON... TO NEAR SANDERSON... TO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MARATHON... TO 15 MILES SOUTH OF VAN HORN AND TO NEAR HOBBS NEW MEXICO. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED IN CENTRAL HOWARD COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 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.
Special weather statement, Oct 2, 10:31 AM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-021635- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1030 AM CDT (930 AM MDT) MON OCT 2 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONTINUING TO MOVE OVER PORTIONS OF WEST TEXAS... AT 1025 AM CDT (925 AM MDT)... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS... SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... WERE LOCATED IN AN AREA FROM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF WHITE FACE... TO 15 MILES EAST OF ROBY... TO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SANDERSON... TO 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF SHAFTER AND TO 15 MILES WEST OF CARLSBAD NEW MEXICO. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR COLORADO CITY AND 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GRANDFALLS. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. 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, Oct 2, 11:14 AM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-030500- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1113 AM CDT (1013 AM MDT) MON OCT 2 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: AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE IS EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA TODAY. THIS COMBINED WITH ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL PROVIDE ENOUGH INSTABILITY LATER TODAY TO GIVE THE AREA A SECOND ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THE STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF BECOMING SEVERE. HOWEVER... THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE MAINLY LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. THE MAIN THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE EAST OF A LINE FROM THE NEW MEXICO/TEXAS BORDER SOUTH INTO BREWSTER COUNTY. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. EARLE
Special weather statement, Oct 2, 11:38 AM CDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-021740- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1137 AM CDT (1037 AM MDT) MON OCT 2 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE REDEVELOPING OVER PORTIONS OF WEST TEXAS... AT 1125 AM CDT (1025 AM MDT)... RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS... SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... IN AN AREA FROM 30 MILES SOUTH OF MARATHON... TO 15 MILES WEST OF CARLSBAD CAVERNS NEW MEXICO... TO 10 MILES EAST OF LITTLEFIELD TO NEAR ABILENE. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF SEMINOLE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. 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, Oct 2, 12:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-021840- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1234 PM CDT (1134 AM MDT) MON OCT 2 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER PORTIONS OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO... AT 1225 AM CDT (1125 AM MDT)... RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS... SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... IN AN AREA FROM NEAR JAYTON... TO 10 MILES NORTH OF BALLINGER... TO NEAR BOQUILLAS AND TO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BALMORHEA. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF BIG LAKE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS... SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE FROM NEAR JAL NEW MEXICO... TO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CARLSBAD CAVERNS... TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF TATUM NEW MEXICO AND TO NEAR PETERSBURG. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 25 MILES SOUTH OF CARLSBAD NEW MEXICO. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 4:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Loving | 45 min |
| Oct 2, 5:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Loving | 29 min |
| Oct 2, 6:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Loving, Winkler | 29 min |
| Oct 2, 2:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 44 min |
| Oct 2, 2:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Culberson | 48 min |
| Oct 2, 3:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 67 min |
| Oct 2, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 68 min |
| Oct 2, 3:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Reeves | 40 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.