Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1995, 1:41 AM CDT for Gaines County, Texas. It was in force for 24 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 17, 1995, 1:41 AM CDT (06:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 1995, 2:05 AM CDT
- In force
- 24 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, 6.7 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
- 2420 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1339 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 170641 SVRMAF TXC165-170745- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 141 AM CDT WED MAY 17 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 AM CDT (145 AM MDT) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST TEXAS ...GAINES COUNTY AT 140 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED ON THE LEA COUNTY NEW MEXICO/GAINES COUNTY LINE. MOVEMENT OF THIS LINE WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM PRODUCED DIME SIZED HAIL JUST NORTH OF HOBBS AT 136 AM CDT. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. BOYD &
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 17, 1:41 AM CDT, 0 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-170745- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 141 AM CDT (1241 AM MDT) WED MAY 17 1995 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR LEA COUNTY OF NEW MEXICO HAS EXPIRED... ...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED AND IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 AM CDT FOR THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE PERMIAN BASIN... AT 125 AM CDT (1225 AM MDT) VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR HOBBS NEW MEXICO TO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF BROWNFIELD TEXAS TO 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF LUBBOCK TEXAS. ELSEWHERE...WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS EXTENDED FROM SOUTHWEST OF CRANE TO NEAR EDEN. MOVEMENT OF ALL THE PRECIPITATION WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR PERSONS IN THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE PERMIAN BASIN SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THUNDERSTORMS THAT COULD PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN... STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK ACTION TO PRESERVE LIFE AND PROPERTY IF SEVERE WEATHER IS SIGHTED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST IN WEATHER INFORMATION.
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.