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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 25, 1995Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1995, 6:37 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 25, 1995, 6:37 PM CDT (23:37 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 1995, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
68 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, 11.6 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 252337
SVRMAF
TXC371-260045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
637 PM CDT THU MAY 25 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST TEXAS
 
   ...PECOS COUNTY
 
AT 637 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES SOUTH OF FORT STOCKTON. THIS STORM WAS
MOVING EAST NORTHEAST 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.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.N
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

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, 3:36 PM CDT, 3 hours 1 minute 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 1:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos61 min
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

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.