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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 29, 1996Midland County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1996, 6:13 PM CDT for Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 62 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 29, 1996, 6:13 PM CDT (23:13 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 1996, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Midland County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 18 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 1996-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2227 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 1996-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 116 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
2227 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
986 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
144 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 292313
SVRMAF
TXC329-300015-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
613 PM CDT WED MAY 29 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS

   ...MIDLAND COUNTY
 
AT 611 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND
DOPPLER RADAR 15 MILES EAST OF MIDLAND OR IN THE VICINITY OF
SPRABERRY MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. A SECOND SEVERE STORM LOCATED
IN EXTREME NORTHEAST CRANE COUNTY WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST MIDLAND
COUNTY BY 625 PM. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE...
SPRABERRY AND MIDLAND.

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.

$$

MURDOCH/FAGEND

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.

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 29, 2:14 PM CDT, 3 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 29, 2:14 PM CDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
145 PM CDT (1245 PM MDT) WED MAY 29 1996

FRONTAL BOUNDARY APPEARS TO BE OSCILLATING IN THE VICINITY OF MAF-INK
SO FAR TOADY.  18Z RUC FINALLY SHOWS PRESSURE RISES SOUTH OF THE
FRONT EXCEEDING PRESSURE RISES NORTH OF THE FRONT.  18Z RUC ALSO0
SHOWS MOISTURE CONVERGENCE AND THETA-E ADVECTION ARE FOCUSED NEAR
JAL NEW MEXICO WHERE FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND DRY LINE INTERSECT.

WITH SURFACE DEW POINT IN THE 60S INCHING INTO SE NM...LI DOWN TO
-8...CAP STRENGTH DOWN TO +2C AND PUFFY CU OUTSIDE...EXPECT FRONTAL
BOUNDARY AND EASTERN SLOPES OF DAVIS MOUNTAINS TO BE FOCUS FOR
INITIATION OF CONVECTION LATER THIS AFTERNOON.  THIS W(ILL BE UPDATED
VIA THE SHORT TERM FORECASTS AS NEEDED.

WITH ONSET OF LOW LEVEL JET AND 850MB THETA-E RIDGE ACROSS CWA
WILL KEEP POPS UP FOR THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT.
CNM  64 10
MAF  68 40
MRF  58 20
P07  74 20

FAGEN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 4:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos61 min
May 29, 4:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReagan46 min
May 29, 5:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos58 min
May 29, 5:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines65 min
May 29, 5:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReagan34 min
May 29, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGlasscock65 min
May 29, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane, Upton62 min
May 29, 6:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos61 min
May 29, 6:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews62 min
May 29, 6:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines46 min
May 29, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMartin65 min
May 29, 6:37 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFMartin63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.