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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 2, 1996Dawson County, Martin County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1996, 3:57 PM CDT for Dawson County, Martin County, Texas. It was in force for 33 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 1996, 3:57 PM CDT (20:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 1996, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties Dawson County, TX, Martin County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 2, 4:02 PM CDT	Hail 1	Patricia, TX

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 68 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: 2074 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 659 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 4.3

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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 Jun 2, 10:30 AM CDT, 5 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 10:30 AM CDT, 5 hours 27 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1030 AM CDT SUN JUN 2 1996

MAF 12Z SOUNDING SHOWING SIGNIFICANT 24 HOUR COOLING AND MOISTENING
BELOW 700 MB.  DIFFICULT TO DETERMINE WITH GOOD ACCURACY LOCATIONS OF
BOUNDARIES AT THIS TIME...HOPING VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGES WILL HELP IN
NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS.  STEADY ENELY UPSLOPE FLOW OVER REGION USUALLY
TOUGH TO GET DEEP CONVECTION GOING AS MAX TEMPS SUPPRESSED BELOW
CONVECTIVE TEMPERATURES.  THINK THAT BOUNDARIES WILL HAVE TO GET IN ON
ACT IN ORDER TO GET LIFT UP TO LFC...TO SUPPORT OF DEEP CONVECTION.
WILL TRIM HIGH TEMP AT MAF BY ONE CATEGORY AS MOIST AIR MASS SUPPRESSES
HEATING.  WITH OLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY IN AREA...WILL NEED TO* KEEP POPS IN
BUT AWAY FROM BOUNDARIES AND MOUNTAINS...SHOULD BE TOUGH TO GET STORMS
TO DEVELOP.

MATHEWS

In the hours before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	35 min
Jun 2, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Howard	34 min
Jun 2, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	47 min
Jun 2, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1996 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.