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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 25, 1995Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1995, 1:14 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 25, 1995, 1:14 PM CDT (18:14 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 1995, 2:15 PM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Pecos County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 139 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 1995-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 403 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 1995-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 258 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
403 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
785 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
258 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
300 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 251815
SVRMAF
TXC371-251915-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
114 PM CDT THU MAY 25 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  215 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST TEXAS
 
   ...NORTHERN PECOS COUNTY
 
AT 113 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN WEST
PECOS COUNTY. THIS STORM IS LOCATED 15 MILES WEST OF SMITH PLACE OR 33
MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF FORT STOCKTON.
 
MOVEMENT NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

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 25, 11:26 AM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-260500-

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1126 AM CDT (1026 AM MDT) THU MAY 25 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: THE CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAS DIMINISHED
SOME WHAT ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA LATE THIS MORNING WITH THE EXIT OF
AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE. HOWEVER WITH AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH
STILL OVER THE SOUTHWEST AND LOW LEVEL MOISTURE REMAINING IN 4PLACE
SOME ISOLATED STORMS MAYBE BECOME STRONG LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING IF SUFFICIENT SURFACE HEATING IS AVAILABLE.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

MURDOCH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 2:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos67 min
May 25, 2:30 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFReeves60 min
May 25, 4:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos67 min
May 25, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReeves60 min
May 25, 6:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos68 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.