Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1995, 5:00 PM CDT for Reeves County, Texas. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 1995, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 1995, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Reeves County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 252201 SVRMAF TXC389-252300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 500 PM CDT THU MAY 25 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 ...REEVES COUNTY AT 500 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PECOS. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. 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.
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, 5 hours 34 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
Special weather statement, May 25, 3:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
NMZ027>029-TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-252140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 336 PM CDT (236 PM MDT) THU MAY 25 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHERN PERMIAN BASIN UNTIL 800 PM CDT... AT 225 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLE HAIL...WERE LOCATED IN SOUTHEAST ECTOR ...EAST CRANE...AND EAST PECOS COUNTIES. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. OTHERWISE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER THE TRANS-PECOS REGION MAINLY IN REEVES AND PECOS COUNTIES. ALSO THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER THE BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK IN BREWSTER COUNTY AND IN WESTERN PRESIDO COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY. 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 25, 1:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 61 min |
| May 25, 2:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 67 min |
| May 25, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Reeves | 60 min |
| May 25, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 67 min |
| May 25, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 68 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.