Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 115, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1996, 11:28 PM CDT for Dawson County, Gaines County, Texas. It was in force for 32 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, 11:28 PM CDT (04:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 1996, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dawson County, TX, Gaines County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:32 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 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 1926 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1987 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 12.9
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, 8:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 29, 8:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 858 PM CDT WED MAY 29 1996 HAVING TONS OF SEVERE WEATHER AROUND THE TX PORTION OF THE CWA. WV SATL SHOWING DIFFLUENT FLOW ALOFT HELPING OUR STORMS TO REACH SEVERE LIMITS. THESE STORMS ARE FIRING ALONG THE DRYLINE..AND EXTD FROM FROM S PLAINS/PERMIAN BASIN INTO MEXICO. LATEST ADAP SHOWS WEAKEST CAP EXTDG FROM CONCHO VALLEY NW TO S/PLAINS. LOW LEVEL DEWPOINTS FOR MAF E/WARD STILL IN THE 60S. HAVE NUMEROUS BOUNDARIES LURKING AROUND THE RDA WITH THE PSBLTY OF MORE SVR WX FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. SEE NO OTHER PRESSING MATTERS FOR DRASTIC CHANGES OVERNITE PACKAGE.. BOYD
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 29, 9:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
NMZ029-300400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 956 PM CDT (856 PM MDT) WED MAY 29 1996 BECAUSE THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT HAD MOVED FARTHER EAST OUT OF NEW MEXICO...LEA COUNNTY NEW MEXICO HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 492. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 64 min |
| May 29, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 62 min |
| May 29, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines, Martin | 62 min |
| May 29, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 64 min |
| May 29, 7:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 47 min |
| May 29, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 62 min |
| May 29, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 62 min |
| May 29, 8:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 3 hr |
| May 29, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 62 min |
| May 29, 9:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 45 min |
| May 29, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 45 min |
| May 30, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reeves | 63 min |
| May 30, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 64 min |
| May 30, 4:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 34 min |
| May 30, 5:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 33 min |
| May 30, 5:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 31 min |
| May 30, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 50 min |
| May 30, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 50 min |
| May 30, 12:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Eddy, Lea | 48 min |
| May 30, 12:36 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 34 min |
| May 30, 1:00 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Lea | 35 min |
| May 30, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 50 min |
| May 30, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 47 min |
| May 30, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 36 min |
Nearby
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.