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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 28, 1995Upton County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1995, 3:02 PM CDT for Upton County, Texas. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 28, 1995, 3:02 PM CDT (20:02 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 1995, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Upton County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 66 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: 28 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -208 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2342 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 282003
SVRMAF
TXC461-282100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
302 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST TEXAS
 
   ...NORTHERN UPTON COUNTY
 
AT 301 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTH
UPTON COUNTY...8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MIDKIFF.
 
MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY 6UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

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 28, 11:46 AM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before

TXZ045>047-050>052-058>063-067>069-075-082-NMZ027>029-290500-

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1146 AM CDT (1046 AM MDT) SUN MAY 28 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: A COLD FRONT THAT PASSED THROUGH THE MIDLAND/ODESSA AREA
LATE THIS MORNING IS EXPECTED TO BECOME STATIONARY OVER SOUTHERN
AREAS OF THE PERMIAN BASIN...AS AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH REMAINS
OVER THE SOUTHWEST U.S.. LOW LEVEL MOISTURE REMAINS HIGH IN
THE VICINITY OF THIS FRONT...ESPECIALLY TO IT'S SOUTH. THE
COMBINATION OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE...WARM AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES
...AND THE APPROACH OF A JET STREAM MAX ACROSS THE SOUTHERN FORECAST
AREA INDICATES THE POSSIBILITY OF THUNDERSTORMS. SOME STORMS THAT
DEVELOP OVER TERRELL AND EASTERN PECOS COUNTY MAY BECOME SEVERE.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAYBE REQUIRED.

MURDOCH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 2:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Upton	28 min
May 28, 3:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	57 min
May 28, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	65 min
May 28, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Terrell	62 min
May 28, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	62 min
May 28, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane	64 min
May 28, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	66 min
May 28, 6:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Upton	66 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.