Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 227, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 17, 1996, 7:56 PM CDT for Winkler 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
- Sep 17, 1996, 7:56 PM CDT (00:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 17, 1996, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Winkler County, TX
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 7:59 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Kermit, 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
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 2111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1630 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
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 Sep 17, 7:23 PM CDT, 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 17, 7:23 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 62 min |
| Sep 17, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 66 min |
| Sep 17, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 64 min |
| Sep 17, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 64 min |
| Sep 17, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 65 min |
| Sep 18, 12:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 48 min |
| Sep 18, 12:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Gaines | 50 min |
| Sep 18, 1:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Gaines | 50 min |
| Sep 18, 11:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Borden | 3 hr |
| Sep 18, 1:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Scurry | 4 hr |
| Sep 17, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 63 min |
| Sep 17, 11:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Lea | 46 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.