Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Issued

Jun 8, 1996, 8:35 PM CDT (01:35 UTC)

Expired

Jun 8, 1996, 9:20 PM CDT

In force

45 min

Issued by

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

Area

Whole counties

County Culberson County, TX

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TTAA00 KMAF 090134
SVRMAF
TXC109-090220-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
835 PM CDT SAT JUN 8 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 920 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WEST TEXAS

   ...WESTERN CULBERSON COUNTY
 
AT 830 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND
DOPPLER RADAR 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF VAN HORN MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

OTHER STRONG/SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 15 MILES NORTH OF VAN
HORN...AND 30 MILES NORTH OF VAN HORN OVER HIGHWAY 54.

LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... VAN HORN.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WITH
FLOODING ALONG HWY 54. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM
ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD
ROADS QUICKLY SO *DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

$$

BOYD/PENDERGRAST

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 8, 2:32 PM CDT, 6 hours 3 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED FOR HEADER...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
228 PM CDT SAT JUN 8 1996

JUST BEGINNING TO GET ECHOES IN WRN CULBERSON CO AND JUST W OF
EDDY CO. STILL BELIEVE OTHER AREAS (SWRN MOUNTAINS AND TRANS-PECOS)
ARE JUST AS LIKELY TO SEEN SOME TRWS AS WEAK MID LEVEL S/W AND ASCD
ACCAS PASSED JUST W OF MAF LATE MORNING/EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. THIS
COMBINED WITH ERLY UPSLOPE FLOW AND LI'S FROM -2 TO -3 CONTINUES
TO SUPPORT THE MENTION IN FCST. E OF THE PECOS RIVER WEAK SE WINDS
EXPECTED AS AXIS OF SURFACE HI PRESS MOVES E. AS SURFACE RIDGE AXIS
EXITS A TROF IS EXPECTED TO FORM ACROSS NM WITH AN AREA OF LOW
PRESSURE DEVELOPING IN SE NM ALONG THE BOUNDARY BY TMRW AFTERNOON.
WEAK MID LEVEL FLOW WILL PRECLUDE TROF FROM MOVING E OF A
HOB...INK...FST SO WEAK SERLY WINDS AGAIN TMRW AFTERNOON. WRMG TREND
STILL ON TAP TONIGHT AND TMRW AS UPPER RIDGE BUILDS W PER THCK
INCREASES. BY FRI MODELS ARE DEPICTING A WEAK S/W MOVING S ACROSS
WTX/ERN NM. BEST LOW LEVEL FORCING IS EXPECTED (WAA/THTE ADVT) TO BE
ACROSS THE WRN LOW ROLLING PLAINS INTO THE RR VALLEY. FOR NOW DON'T
BELIEVE MENTION IS NEEDED BUT WILL KEEP A WATCH FOR CHANGES.
OTHERWISE NO SIGNIFICANT CHANCE FOR PRECIP ACROSS THE CWA AS UPPER
HI BUILDS W AND NE HOLDING WRLYS WELL N.

CNM 66 10
MAF 64 0
MRF 56 20
P07 64 -

MURDOCH

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