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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1995, 5:17 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 1995, 5:17 PM CDT (22:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 1995, 6:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pecos County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 139 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 052217 SVRMAF TXC371-052320- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 517 PM CDT FRI MAY 5 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 620 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST TEXAS ...EASTERN PECOS COUNTY AT 515 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG INTERSTATE 10 BETWEEN BAKERSFIELD AND SHEFFIELD. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PA SSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE 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, 11:48 AM CDT, 5 hours 29 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
Special weather statement, May 5, 2:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-052045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 233 PM CDT (133 PM MDT) FRI MAY 5 1995 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF THE PERMIAN BASIN UNTIL 800 PM CDT... AT 225 PM CDT (125 PM MDT)...AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WAS LOCATED FROM SOUTHEAST OF FORT DAVIS TO NORTHWEST OF ABILENE. THE HEAVIEST STORM WAS WEST OF ODESSA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE PERMIAN BASIN SHOULD WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
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, 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, 5:56 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.