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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1995, 5:19 PM CDT for Ward County, Texas. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 1995, 5:19 PM CDT (22:19 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1995, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ward County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 262219 SVRMAF TXC475-262300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 519 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 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 ...WARD COUNTY AT 515 PM CDT...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF PYOTE...OR ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF MONOHANS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD BE IN THE MONOHANS AREA AT 545 PM. 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. 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 26, 11:30 AM CDT, 5 hours 49 minutes 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, 1:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 59 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, 5:29 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, 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.