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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 6, 1996Crane County, Ector County, Upton County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1996, 11:41 PM CDT for Crane County, Ector County, Upton County, Texas. It was in force for 64 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: Jun 6, 1996, 11:41 PM CDT (04:41 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 1996, 12:45 AM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

Counties Crane County, TX, Ector County, TX, Upton County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 47 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: 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, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 8:56 PM CDT, 2 hours 45 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

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 6, 11:33 PM CDT, 8 minutes 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 6, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	64 min
Jun 6, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Culberson	65 min
Jun 6, 7:53 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Pecos	3 hr
Jun 6, 8:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Culberson	3 hr
Jun 6, 10:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	49 min
Jun 6, 11:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reeves, Ward	49 min
Jun 7, 12:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	50 min
Jun 7, 1:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	64 min
Jun 7, 2:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Scurry	47 min
Jun 7, 3:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	35 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.