Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1995, 1:12 PM CDT for Howard County, Texas. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 1995, 1:12 PM CDT (18:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 1995, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Howard County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 766 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 541 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 289 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 051813 SVRMAF TXC227-051915- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 112 PM CDT FRI MAY 5 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST TEXAS ...HOWARD COUNTY AT 112 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN EAST HOWARD COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. 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 FLOO(D 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, May 5, 9:35 AM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-051445- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 935 AM CDT (835 AM MDT) FRI MAY 5 1995 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS...UNTIL NOON CDT (11 AM MDT)... AT 925 AM CDT (825 AM MDT)...AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WAS LOCATED FROM NORTHWEST OF LUBBOCK TO NORTH OF SONORA. THE HEAVIEST STORMS WERE NEAR HOBBS AND IN SOUTH ANDREWS COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. MOVEMENT OF ALL ACTIVITY WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 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...LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 5, 10:25 AM CDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-051645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1025 AM CDT (925 AM MDT) FRI MAY 5 1995 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS...UNTIL NOON CDT (11 AM MDT)... AT 1025 AM CDT (925 AM MDT)...AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WAS LOCATED FROM NORTHWEST OF LUBBOCK TO NORTH OF OZONA. THE HEAVIEST STORMS WERE IN SOUTHERN ANDREWS COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 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...LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, May 5, 11:48 AM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-060500- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1148 AM CDT (1048 AM MDT) FRI MAY 5 1995 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST TEXAS: ANDREWS DAWSON GLASSCOCK MARTIN REEVES WARD BORDON ECTOR HOWARD MIDLAND TERRELL WINKLER CRANE GAINES LOVING PECOS UPTON AND IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO: EDDY LEA SYNOPSIS: AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING ACROSS THE PERMIAN BASIN WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS INTO THE AFTERNOON. SOME OF THE LATE MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON STORMS MAINLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM ANDREWS TO MIDLAND TO BIG SPRING MAY REACH SEVERE CRITERIA BEFORE THE UPPER DISTURBANCE EXITS THE AREA. THE ATMOSPHERE IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN UNSTABLE INTO THE EVENING AS THE DEEP UPPER LEVEL TROUGH OVER THE WESTERN U.S. CONTINUES TO SLOWLY APPROACH. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.~ MURDOCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 69 min |
| May 4, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 64 min |
| May 4, 9:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 49 min |
| May 4, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 61 min |
| May 4, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Midland | 60 min |
| May 4, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 60 min |
| May 4, 11:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 62 min |
| May 5, 7:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 62 min |
| May 5, 8:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Winkler | 64 min |
| May 5, 11:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 57 min |
| May 5, 1:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 66 min |
| May 5, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector, Midland | 49 min |
| May 5, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Midland | 54 min |
| May 5, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 45 min |
| May 5, 4:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 61 min |
| May 5, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 63 min |
| May 5, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 40 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.