Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1995, 1:24 PM CDT for Ector County, Texas. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 1995, 1:24 PM CDT (18:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 1995, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ector County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 34 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 051824 SVRMAF TXC135-051930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 124 PM CDT FRI MAY 5 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST TEXAS ...NORTHERN ECTOR COUNTY AT 125 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTH ECTOR COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRI|VE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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 49 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 59 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 36 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, 1:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 63 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.