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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 26, 1995Glasscock County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1995, 1:31 PM CDT for Glasscock County, Texas. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 1995, 1:31 PM CDT (18:31 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 1995, 2:30 PM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Glasscock County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 65 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 978 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -91 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 560 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 232 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 275 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 5.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 261836 COR
SVRMAF
TXC173-261930-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTION FOR LOCATION...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
131 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  230 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WEST TEXAS

   ...GLASSCOCK COUNTY

AT 129 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN WEST
GLASSCOCK COUNTY...JUST WEST OF GARDEN CITY. MOVEMENT NORTH AT 25 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 26, 11:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-270500-

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1130 AM CDT (1030 AM MDT) FRI MAY 26 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 COMBINATION OF A MOIST UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE AND
STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHING THE FORECAST AREA THIS
AFTERNOON WILL LEAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF STRONG TO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS. RESIDENTS OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO
SHOULD KEPEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED.

MURDOCH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 8:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Terrell	47 min
May 25, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Terrell	46 min
May 26, 3:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Loving	56 min
May 26, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reeves	59 min
May 26, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reeves	56 min
May 26, 4:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Reeves	55 min
May 26, 5:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Ector	57 min
May 26, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ward	41 min
May 26, 5:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Ward	61 min
May 26, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Ector	55 min
May 26, 5:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos	64 min
May 26, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	60 min
May 26, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Upton	58 min
May 26, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	64 min
May 26, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	31 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1995 Every 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.