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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 220, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

September 2, 1996Gaines County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 1996, 6:44 PM CDT for Gaines County, Texas. It was in force for 61 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
Sep 2, 1996, 6:44 PM CDT (23:44 UTC)
Expired
Sep 2, 1996, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Gaines County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Amarillo Airport, TX (KAMA), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 290 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1996-09-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2108 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Amarillo Airport, TX at 12:00Z on 1996-09-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 239 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2108 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-147 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
946 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
239 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
327 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
6.3

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 2, 3:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFPecos62 min
Sep 2, 3:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFWard62 min
Sep 2, 4:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews63 min
Sep 2, 4:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane63 min
Sep 2, 4:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor61 min
Sep 2, 5:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster62 min
Sep 2, 5:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFAndrews64 min
Sep 2, 5:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMidland63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1996Every 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.