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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1995, 12:59 AM CDT for Gaines County, Texas. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 1995, 12:59 AM CDT (05:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 1995, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gaines County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 565 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -260 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1149 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 060600 SVRMAF TXC165-060700- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1259 AM CDT SAT MAY 6 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST TEXAS ...WESTERN GAINES COUNTY AT 1258 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN THE EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CORNER OF GAINES COUNTY... ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SEMINOLE. THIS STORM SHOULD PASS TO THE WEST OF SEMINOLE OVER THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STvRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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, 9:33 PM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-060340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 933 PM CDT (833 PM MDT) FRI MAY 5 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONTINUING OVER UPTON COUNTY... AT 925 PM CDT...WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE LOCATED FROM 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF RANKIN...TO 20 MILES NORTH OF MERTZON...TO 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF OZONA AND TO NEAR LONGFELLOW. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF RANKIN. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...ONE WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WERE LOCATED IN AN AREA FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF ARTESIA NEW MEXICO...TO 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF MALJAMAR NEW MEXICO...TO 20 MILES WEST OF ORLA AND TO NEAR GAUDALUPE PASS. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CARLSBAD CAVERNS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILI2TIES 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 39 min |
| May 5, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 47 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.