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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 23, 1996Brewster County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1996, 2:21 PM CDT for Brewster County, Texas. It was in force for 64 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 23, 1996, 2:21 PM CDT (19:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 1996, 3:25 PM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Brewster County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 23, 2:30 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Alpine, 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

Del Rio, TX (KDRT), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 238 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: 1366 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 658 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 23, 10:25 AM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 10:25 AM CDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 23, 11:57 AM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before

NMZ027>029-TXZ045>048-050>052-057>063-067>070-074-075-079>082-240500-

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1157 AM CDT (1057 AM MDT) SUN JUN 23 1996

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST TEXAS:

ANDREWS   CULBERSON  GLASSCOCK   MARTIN    REAGAN   UPTON
BORDEN    DAWSON     HOWARD      MIDLAND   REEVES   WARD
BREWSTER  ECTOR      JEFF DAVIS  PECOS     SCURRY   WINKLER
CRANE     GAINES     LOVING      PRESIDIO  TERRELL

AND IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO:

EDDY      LEA

SYNOPSIS: THE PRESENCE OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE...A SLIGHTLY COOLER
MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE...AND DAYTIME HEATING WILL HELP MORE SCATTERED
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING. RELATIVELY WEAK ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS SHOULD KEEP MOST OF
THESE STORMS BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...BUT SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS ARE
POSSIBLE. THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WILL ALLOW LOCALLY HEAVY
RAINFALL TO OCCUR.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

BOYD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 2:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Brewster	2 hr
Jun 23, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	32 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.