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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 159, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 6, 1996Ector County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1996, 10:51 PM CDT for Ector County, Texas. It was in force for 49 min. 2 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 6, 1996, 10:51 PM CDT (03:51 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1996, 11:40 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Ector County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:10 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 6, 11:05 PM CDTHail 1.75Odessa, TX
Jun 6, 11:25 PM CDTHail 0.75Odessa, 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 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 34 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 00:00Z on 1996-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1134 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1996-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1134 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3954 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.3

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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 6, 8:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 8:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
855 PM CDT THU JUN 6 1996

CONVECTION OVER PECOS/CULBERSON COUNTIES DECREASING ATTM. SLOW MOVG
NATURE OF TSTMS AND WSR-88D RAINFALL ESTIMATES PROMPTED ISSUANCE OF
FFW FOR N/CNTRL PECOS COUNTY ERYR. HOWEVER...WSR-88D INDICATES E-W
OUTFLOW BOUNDARY JUST S OF MAF WITH ANOTHER NE-SW ORIENTED BNDRY
INK-LAMESA LN. AM SMWHT CONCERNED ABT CNVTN TO DVLP ALG THIS BNDRY
DURG THE NEXT FEW HRS. 07/00Z MAF SNDG WAS NEARLY DRY ADIABATIC TO
ABT H4 WITH CAPES ARND 2000 J/KG AND LI OF MINUS 5. REPORTS ERYR
THIS EVE OF GSTY WNDS ASSOCD WITH TSTMS ATTRIBUTABLE TO DRY MICROBURST
NATURE OF PROFILE. LTL IN WAY OF ROTATION INDCD BY WSR-88D WITH TSTMS
ERYR THIS EVE. AS PER COORD WITH LBB WL KEEP SLGT CHC TSTMS WITH SOME
POSSIBLY SVR FOR DURATION OF NGT IN GOING FCST. FFW BEING ISSUED ATTM
FOR NE/N CNTRL CULBERSON COUNTY BASED ON SLOW MOVG STMS AND DOPPLER
ESTIMATES.

BF

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 7:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos64 min
Jun 6, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCulberson65 min
Jun 6, 7:53 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFPecos3 hr
Jun 6, 8:58 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFCulberson3 hr
Jun 6, 11:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReeves, Ward49 min
Jun 6, 11:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane, Ector, Upton64 min
Jun 7, 12:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFUpton50 min
Jun 7, 1:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFScurry64 min
Jun 7, 2:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBorden, Scurry47 min
Jun 7, 3:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFScurry35 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.