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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 26, 1995Ward County, Texas

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 1995-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 978 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 1995-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 232 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
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 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 8:28 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFTerrell47 min
May 25, 9:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFTerrell46 min
May 26, 1:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGlasscock59 min
May 26, 3:49 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFLoving56 min
May 26, 4:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReeves59 min
May 26, 4:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReeves56 min
May 26, 4:50 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFReeves55 min
May 26, 5:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews, Ector57 min
May 26, 5:29 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFWard61 min
May 26, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane, Ector55 min
May 26, 5:56 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFPecos64 min
May 26, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMidland60 min
May 26, 6:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane, Upton58 min
May 26, 6:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGlasscock64 min
May 26, 6:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMidland31 min

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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.