Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1995, 12:57 PM CDT for Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 1995, 12:57 PM CDT (17:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 1995, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Midland County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 18 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
- 2940 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 722 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 7, 11:48 AM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-080500- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1148 AM CDT (1048 AM MDT) SUN MAY 7 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: A DRYLINE EXTENDS NORTH-SOUTH ALONG THE TEXAS/NEW MEXICO BORDER. IT WILL DRIFT EASTWARD TODAY. THE ATMOSPHERE EAST OF THIS DRYLINE IS VERY UNSTABLE...SO THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE ARE POSSIBLE OVER WEST TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED. BOYD
Special weather statement, May 7, 12:15 PM CDT, 42 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-061>063-068-069-075-072215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1215 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF WEST TEXAS UNTIL 6 PM THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR MOST OF WEST TEXAS UNTIL 6:00PM CDT. THE ATMOSPHERE OVER PARTS OF WEST TEXAS IS VERY UNSTABLE...ESPECIALLY EAST OF A DRYLINE EXTENDING NORTH-SOUTH JUST EAST OF THE TEXAS/NEW MEXICO BORDER. AT 11:25 AM CDT...MIDLAND RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NORTHWEST OF SONORA TO SOUTHWEST OF OZONA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILE AN HOUR. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS MAY ALSO OCCUR. BE READY TO MOVE TO SHELTER IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. ADVANCE PLANNING DURING A WATCH IS ESSENTIAL. MAKE SURE YOUR FAMILY KNOWS WHERE TO GO AND WHAT TO DO...IN THE EVENT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING OR TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED. IF SEVERE WEATHER IS OBSERVED...CONTACT YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR INFORMATION TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION. BOYD
Special weather statement, May 7, 12:38 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
NMZ027>029-TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-071840- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1238 PM CDT (1138 AM MDT) SUN MAY 7 1995 ...PEA SIZED HAIL REPORTED IN MIDLAND... AT 1225 PM CDT...PEA SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED AT THE MIDLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. RESIDENTS OF WEST TEXAS SHOULD KEEP ABREAST OF THE RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS OVER WEST TEXAS THIS AFTERNOON. MOST OF WEST TEXAS CONTINUES UNDER A TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 600 PM CDT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 64 min |
| May 7, 12:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 41 min |
| May 7, 12:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 44 min |
| May 7, 1:08 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Dawson | 52 min |
| May 7, 1:49 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Borden | 26 min |
| May 7, 2:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden | 44 min |
| May 7, 2:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 57 min |
| May 7, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 31 min |
| May 6, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy | 61 min |
| May 6, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Chaves | 62 min |
| May 6, 11:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Chaves | 58 min |
| May 6, 11:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 43 min |
| May 7, 1:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Chaves, De Baca | 64 min |
| May 7, 2:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Chaves, De Baca | 27 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.