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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector, Winkler | 64 min |
| May 15, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Ector, Winkler | 58 min |
| May 15, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ward, Winkler | 67 min |
| May 15, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Crane, Ector | 63 min |
| May 15, 8:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Crane | 68 min |
| May 15, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 75 min |
| May 15, 9:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Upton | 63 min |
| May 15, 11:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 32 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.