Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 244, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 6, 1996, 7:22 PM CST for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 28 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
- Nov 6, 1996, 7:22 PM CST (01:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 6, 1996, 7:50 PM CST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pecos County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 6, 7:25 PM CST | Hail 1 | Ft Stockton, 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, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1994 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 85 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Nov 6, 1:52 PM CST, 5 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 6, 1:52 PM CST, 5 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 151 PM CST WED NOV 6 1996 19Z LATEST SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS QUASI/STATIONARY COLD FRONT EXTENDING FROM SOUTH OF CDS... TO SOUTH OF LBB... TO SOUTH HOBBS AND TO NEAR CNM. DEWPOINTS REMAIN IN THE LOWER TO MID 50S OVER THE PERMIAN BASIN WITH 60S FARTHER SOUTH. LATEST WV IMAGERY SHOWS S/W JUST SOUTH OF THE BORDER OF AZ/NM IN NORTHERN MEXICO CONTINUING TO MOVE EASTWARD WITH NICE DRY SLOT SHAPING UP OUT AHEAD OF IT. VISIBLE SHOWING LAYER OF AC/ACCAS OVER PORTION OF TRANS/PECOS NORTHEASTWARD INTO SOUTH PLAINS. BELIEVE FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO WAIT FOR AFOREMENTIONED S/W BEFORE MOVING THROUGH FA. WITH S/W PROGGED TO MOVE OVER AREA LATER THIS EVENING LOTS OF UPWARD MOTION EXISTS OVER AREA. THEREFORE... BELIEVE POPS WARRANTED FROM PERMIAN BASIN SOUTHWARD WITH GREATEST CHANCES EAST AND SOUTH OF MAF. ONLY LIMITING FACTOR WILL BE AVAILABLE MOISTURE WHICH WILL BE MORE DOMINANT OVER EASTERN AND SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF FA. REAL FRONT SHOULD PUSH THROUGH MAF BETWEEN 10 PM AND MIDNIGHT WITH PREFRONTAL PUSHING THROUGH AT THIS TIME. WILL GO A MIX OF AVN AND NGM THIS TIME AROUND BUT TENDING TOWARDS COOLER AVN TEMPERATURES AS BELIEVEj GOOD CAA WILL BE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS FRONT AS SEEN BY TEMPERATURES OVER PANHANDLE WITH 40S AND 50S PREDOMINANT. CNM 39/5 MAF 39/20 MRF 35/0 P07 48/30 EARLE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 6, 6:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 50 min |
| Nov 6, 7:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Reagan | 50 min |
| Nov 6, 8:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 45 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.