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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 138, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 2, 1996Gaines County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1996, 9:39 PM CDT for Gaines County, Texas. It was in force for 66 min. 4 reports 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, 9:39 PM CDT (02:39 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 1996, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Gaines County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:43 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
Jun 2, 10:07 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Seagraves, TX
Jun 2, 10:08 PM CDT	Hail 1	Higginbotham, TX
Jun 2, 10:10 PM CDT	Hail 2.75	Seminole, TX
Jun 2, 10:15 PM CDT	Hail 4	Seminole, 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

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 290 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: 839 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1968 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 215 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.9

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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, 8:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 8:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
823 PM CDT (723 PM MDT) SUN JUN 2 1996

SEVERE WEATHER ONGOING ATTM. SLOW MOVING CELLS OVER CRANE...REAGAN
AND UPTON COUNTIES CAUSING FLASH FLOOD THREAT THIS EVENING. OUTFLOW
BOUNDARY INTERACTION IN THE WEAK WIND FIELDS OVER FA KEEPING
SCATTERED STRONG/SVR STORMS GOING INTO THE EVENING HOURS. ADDITIONAL
STORMS MOVING S-WARD FROM NORTHERN LEA COUNTY AND YOAKUM COUNTIES
EXPECTED TO IMPACT FvA NEXT 1 TO 3 HOURS. STATIONARY FRONY DRAPED
ACROSS W-TX NOT EXPECTED TO MOVE MUCH NEXT 24 HRS SO REPEAT
PERFORMANCE OF STORM ACTIVITY POSSIBLE FOR TOMORROW WITH MOISTURE IN
PLACE AND COOL TEMPS ALOFT.

PENDERGRAST

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 2, 6:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before

NMZ027>029-TXZ045>048-050>052-057>063-067>070-074-075-079>082-030025-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
652 PM CDT (552 PM MDT) SUN JUN 2 1996

HERE IS AN UPDATE ON ALL OF THE WATCHES IN EFFECT IN WEST TEXAS :

THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE INCLUDED IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
#524 IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT :

GLASSCOCK     REAGAN

THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE INCLUDED IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
#528 IN EFFECT UNTIL
1000 PM CDT :

GAINES        DAWSON
BORDEN        SCURRY
MARTIN        HOWARD
MITCHELL

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
Jun 2, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	33 min
Jun 2, 7:53 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Reagan	3 hr
Jun 2, 7:53 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Crane, Upton	3 hr
Jun 2, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ward	48 min
Jun 2, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos	34 min
Jun 2, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos, Ward	60 min
Jun 2, 9:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Gaines	66 min
Jun 2, 10:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	47 min
Jun 2, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reeves, Ward	51 min
Jun 2, 10:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Gaines	51 min
Jun 2, 10:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Andrews	62 min
Jun 2, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Winkler	50 min
Jun 2, 11:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	47 min
Jun 2, 11:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector, Martin, Midland	58 min
Jun 2, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	50 min
Jun 2, 8:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Lea	50 min
Jun 2, 9:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Lea	48 min
Jun 2, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	60 min
Jun 2, 11:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	48 min
Jun 2, 11:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Eddy, Lea	65 min
Jun 3, 12:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	59 min
Jun 3, 1:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	61 min
Jun 3, 2:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Lea	66 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.