Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 23, 1996, 6:27 PM CDT for Brewster County, Texas. It was in force for 33 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 23, 1996, 6:27 PM CDT (23:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 23, 1996, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 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, 11.5 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
- 2311 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 563 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 232328 SVRMAF TXC043-240000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 627 PM CDT MON SEP 23 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST TEXAS ...EAST CENTRAL BREWSTER COUNTY AT 624 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR 19 MILES EAST OF MARATHON MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH. THE MOST INTENSE PART OF THE STORM HAS ALREADY PASSED SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 90 BETWEEN MARATHON AND SANDERSON. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERvS THE ROAD. $$ TURNAGE/BRITE &
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 23, 3:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 23, 3:33 PM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION... UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 333 PM CDT (233 PM MDT) MON SEP 23 1996 18Z SURFACE ANALYSIS AND 88D REFL DATA SHOWS PREFRONTAL TROUGH EXTENDING FROM NEAR CDS... TO EAST OF LBB... TO SOUTH OF LAMESA AND SOUTH OF HOB. COLD FRONT EXTENDS FROM SOUTH OF AMA TO JUST SOUTH OF CVN. FRONT CONTINUES TO MOVE SOUTH AND SEE REALLY NOTHING THAT WILL SLOW IT DOWN TOO MUCH. WITH PRESENT MOVEMENT MAY COME THROUGH SEVERAL HOURS BEFORE PREVIOUS SHIFTS THINKING. LATEST NSAT IR AND WV IMAGERY SHOWING MID/HIGH LEVEL MOISTURE THINNING SOMEWHAT WITH PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES PREVAILING OVER FA. BELIEVE ONLY CONCERN THIS FORECASTS PERIOD IS TIMING OF FRONT WHICH NGM NOR ETA HANDLE VERY WELL GIVEN PRESENT LOCATION. WITH THIS IN MIND BELIEVE FRONT WILL PUSH THROUGH MIDLAND BEFORE MIDNIGHT AND THROUGH MUCH OF FA EAST OF MOUNTAINS BEFORE 12Z TOMORROW MORNING. WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER DAVIS MOUNTAINS... BIG BEND AND PECOS COUNTIES. RECOMMEND INCLUDING POPS FROM SOUTHERN PERMIAN BASIN SOUTH INTO THESE LOCATIONS FOR THIS EVENING. AS FOR TEMPERATURES WILL STICK CLOSER TO THE COOLER AVN FOR AREAS EAST OF MOUNTAINS BEHIND FRONT.0 CNM 58 MAF 59 MRF 56 P07 69 EARLE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Brewster | 33 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.