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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 16, 1995Winkler County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1995, 4:51 PM CDT for Winkler County, Texas. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 16, 1995, 4:51 PM CDT (21:51 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 1995, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Winkler County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 81 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2245 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 423 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2245 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-200 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
751 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
423 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
428 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
7.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 162151
SVRMAF
TXC495-162300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
451 PM CDT TUE MAY 16 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST TEXAS
 
   ...WINKLER COUNTY
 
AT 450 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ENTERING WINKLER
COUNTY 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KERMIT. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT
40 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE IN THE VICINITY OF KERMIT BY 510 PM CDT.
 
LARGE HAIL AND WINDS EXCEEDING 60 MILES AN HOUR ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
 
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE HINSIDE 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 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 16, 11:28 AM CDT, 5 hours 23 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-170500-

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1129 AM CDT (1029 AM MDT) TUE MAY 16 1995

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST TEXAS:

ANDREWS   DAWSON    GLASSCOCK  MARTIN    REEVES   WARD
BORDEN    ECTOR     HOWARD     MIDLAND   TERRELL  WINKLER
CRANE     GAINES    LOVING     PECOS     UPTON

AND IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO:

EDDY      LEA

SYNOPSIS: A MOIST AND VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS IS CURRENTLY SITUATED
OVER THE OUTLOOK AREA.  A DRYLINE LOCATED IN EASTERN NEW MEXICO THIS
MORNING IS FORECAST TO MOVE SLOWLY TO THE EAST THIS AFTERNOON
PROVIDING THE FOCUS FOR POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY THIS
AFTTERNOON AND EVENING. GIVEN THE AMOUNT OF INSTABILITY AND A
FAVORABLE WIND PROFILE...SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME
SEVERE.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.

MEAD

The office that day

Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 15, 7:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor, Winkler64 min
May 15, 7:32 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFEctor, Winkler58 min
May 15, 7:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFWard, Winkler67 min
May 15, 8:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane, Ector63 min
May 15, 8:52 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFCrane68 min
May 15, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFUpton75 min
May 15, 9:27 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFUpton63 min
May 15, 11:03 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFGlasscock32 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.