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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 6, 1996Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1996, 6:02 PM CDT for Pecos 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: May 6, 1996, 6:02 PM CDT (23:02 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 1996, 6:35 PM CDT
In force: 33 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 23:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 May 6, 2:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 6, 2:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 6, 3:41 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	51 min
May 5, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	49 min
May 5, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden	65 min
May 5, 8:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Howard	4 hr
May 5, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	64 min
May 5, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	49 min
May 5, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	60 min
May 5, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden	32 min
May 5, 11:13 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Howard	4 hr
May 6, 3:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	53 min
May 6, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	35 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 1996 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.