Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 193, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1996, 2:24 PM CDT for Brewster County, Texas. It was in force for 66 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
- Jul 24, 1996, 2:24 PM CDT (19:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 1996, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brewster County, TX
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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1597 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 937 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 24, 3:12 AM CDT, 11 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 3:12 AM CDT, 11 hours 12 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 24, 11:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before
NMZ027>029-TXZ045>048-050>052-057>063-067>070-074-075-079>082-250500- THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 1128 AM CDT (1028 AM MDT) WED JUL 24 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: AS AN UPPER-LEVEL DISTURBANCE PUSHES THROUGH WEST AND CENTRAL TEXAS...ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING OVER MUCH OF THE OUTLOOK AREA. BY 1 PM...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE OCCURRING MAINLY SOUTHWEST OF A HOBBS...MIDLAND...BIG LAKE LINE. THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PERMIAN BASIN HEADING SOUTHWEST AT APPROXIMATELY 25 MPH THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THESE STORMS AND ANY THAT DEVELOP LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ARE NOT ANTICIPATED TO REACH SEVERE LEVELS. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE HEAVY RAINFALL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND WIND GUST WHICH MAY APPROACH 50 MPH. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. HUBER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 4:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 6:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Brewster | 59 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.