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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 5, 1996Martin County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1996, 8:36 PM CDT for Martin County, Texas. It was in force for 49 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
May 5, 1996, 8:36 PM CDT (01:36 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 1996, 9:25 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Martin County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 46 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 1996-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 180 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 1996-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 12 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
180 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
4311 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 060137
SVRMAF
TXC317-060225-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
836 PM CDT SUN MAY 5 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 925 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHWEST TEXAS

   ...EASTERN MARTIN COUNTY
 
AT 835 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND
DOPPLER RADAR 14 MILES NORTH OF STANTON OR 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
MERRICK MOVING NORTHEAST AT 11 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...BROWN.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE
FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DhEADLY
LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A PLACE OF
SAFETY...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.

$$

BOYD/MURDOCH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 7:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFHoward51 min
May 5, 7:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFScurry49 min
May 5, 8:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBorden65 min
May 5, 8:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFHoward4 hr
May 5, 8:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFHoward64 min
May 5, 9:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFHoward60 min
May 5, 9:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBorden32 min
May 5, 11:13 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFHoward4 hr
May 6, 3:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos53 min
May 6, 6:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos33 min
May 6, 6:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster35 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.