Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 1995, 1:22 PM CST for Glasscock County, Texas. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 25, 1995, 1:22 PM CST (19:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 1995, 2:30 PM CST
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Glasscock County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -380 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1865 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 251922 RRA SVRMAF TXC173-252030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 122 PM CST SAT MAR 25 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST TEXAS ...GLASSCOCK COUNTY AT 120 PM CST RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING THE TOWN OF ST LAWRENCE IN SOUTHERN GLASSCOCK COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 40 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 FLOOD 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, Mar 25, 9:37 AM CST, 3 hours 45 minutes before
TXZ046-047-251700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 938 AM CST SAT MAR 25 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR BORDEN AND DAWSON COUNTIES OF TEXAS UNTIL 100 PM CST... AT 926 AM CST NO SIGNIFICANT PRECIPITATION WAS OCCURRING IN BORDEN OR DAWSON COUNTY. WITH A MOIST UNSTABLE AIRMASS OVER THE REGION...THERE IS A POSSIBLITY THAT THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP RAPIDLY. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER CONDITIONS CLOSELY AND BE READY SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SIGHTED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST IN WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Mar 25, 9:38 AM CST, 3 hours 44 minutes before
TXZ046-047-251700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 938 AM CST SAT MAR 25 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR BORDEN AND DAWSON COUNTIES OF TEXAS UNTIL 100 PM CST... AT 926 AM CST NO SIGNIFICANT PRECIPITATION WAS OCCURRING IN BORDEN OR DAWSON COUNTY. WITH A MOIST UNSTABLE AIRMASS OVER THE REGION...THERE IS A POSSIBLITY THAT THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP RAPIDLY. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER CONDITIONS CLOSELY AND BE READY SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SIGHTED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST IN WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Mar 25, 10:29 AM CST, 2 hours 53 minutes before
TXZ046-047-251800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1029 AM CST SAT MAR 25 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR BORDEN AND DAWSON COUNTIES OF TEXAS UNTIL 100 PM CST... AT 1025 AM CST NO SIGNIFICANT PRECIPITATION WAS OCCURRING IN BORDEN OR DAWSON COUNTY. WITH A MOIST UNSTABLE AIRMASS OVER THE REGION...THERE IS A POSSIBLITY THAT THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP RAPIDLY. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER CONDITIONS CLOSELY AND BE READY SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SIGHTED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST IN WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Mar 25, 11:18 AM CST, 2 hours 4 minutes before
TXZ046-047-251830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1120 AM CST SAT MAR 25 1995 ...THE TORNADO WATCH FOR BORDEN AND DAWSON COUNTIES OF TEXAS HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 1115 AM CST A DRY LINE HAD MOVED EAST OF THE AREA AND DRIER AIR WAS MOVING IN FROM THE WEST. THEREFORE MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL DEVELOP EAST OF BORDEN AND DAWSON COUNTIES. PRINT:
Special weather statement, Mar 25, 11:20 AM CST, 2 hours 2 minutes before
TXZ046-047-251830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1120 AM CST SAT MAR 25 1995 ...THE TORNADO WATCH FOR BORDEN AND DAWSON COUNTIES OF TEXAS HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 1115 AM CST A DRY LINE HAD MOVED EAST OF THE AREA AND DRIER AIR WAS MOVING IN FROM THE WEST. THEREFORE MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL DEVELOP EAST OF BORDEN AND DAWSON COUNTIES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST IN WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Mar 25, 11:22 AM CST, 2 hours before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-260525- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1122 AM CST (1022 AM MST) SAT MAR 25 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: THE DRYLINE HAS MOVED THROUGH THE AREA RESULTING IN DIMINISHED LOW LEVEL MOISTURE. AS A RESULT...THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP EAST OF OUR AREA TODAY. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. EARLE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 4:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 41 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.