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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 10, 1996Glasscock County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1996, 5:47 PM CDT for Glasscock County, Texas. It was in force for 48 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: May 10, 1996, 5:47 PM CDT (22:47 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 1996, 6:35 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Glasscock County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
May 10, 6:00 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Garden City, 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 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 65 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1591 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -370 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1134 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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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 10, 2:42 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 10, 2:42 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
239 PM CDT FRI MAY 10 1996

18Z SFC ANALYSIS INDICATES COLD FRONT HAS SAGGED SOUTH TO NEAR FST
ALONG ERN SLOPES OF MOUNTAINS. N-NW FLOW ALOFT ON KMAF VWP HINTS
THAT SMALLER PIECE OF ENERGY AHEAD OF SHORTWAVE HAD PROVIDED ENOUGH
DOWNWARD FORCING IN ITS WAKE TO CONTINUE TO PUSH FRONT SOUTH ALONG
ERN SLOPES. PER LATEST SWODY1...THIS PLACES NEW FOCUS FOR CONVECTION
ACROSS ERN FA AHEAD OF FRONT THAT IS NOW QUASI-STATIONARY NEAR MAF.
12Z ETA HAS HANDLED SURFACE FEATURES REMARKABLY WELL...AND SHOWS
AREA NEAR ABI GOOD FOR SUPERCELL DEVELOPMENT THIS EVENING. THIS AREA
ALSO WHERE ADAP HAS SHOWN PERSISTENT MOIST FLUX CONVERGENT BULLSEYE
AHEAD OF FRONT PAST COUPLE HOURS. GIVEN FAIRLY DEEP MOISTURE AND WEAK
MID-LEVEL WINDS IN AREA OF INTEREST...WOULD EXPECT HP VARIETY
SUPERCELLS WITH NEW CELLS POSSIBLY BACKBUILDING ALONG FRONT. THIS
COULD MEAN HEAVY RAIN FOR FAR EASTERN FA TONIGHT.

FOR NUMBERS TONIGHT...GENERALLY LIKE GUIDANCE. GIVEN MOIST E-SE
BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW PROGGED BY ETA BEHIND FRONT...WOULD SUGGEST
MENTIONING LOW CLOUDS SATURDAY MORNING ERN ZONES.

CNM  60/-
MAF  61/4
MRF  52/-
P07  70/3

TURNAGE

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 10, 11:47 AM CDT, 6 hours before

TXZ045>048-050>052-057>063-067>070-074-075-079>082-NMZ027>029-110500-

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
1144 AM CDT (1044 AM MDT) FRI MAY 10 1996

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST TEXAS:

ANDREWS   CULBERSON  GLASSCOCK   MARTIN    REAGAN   UPTON
BORDEN    DAWSON     HOWARD      MIDLAND   REEVES   WARD
BREWSTER  ECTOR      JEFF DAVIS  PECOS     SCURRY   WINKLER
CRANE     GAINES     LOVING      PRESIDIO  TERRELL

AND IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO:

EDDY      LEA

SYNOPSIS:
AN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE WAS LOCATED AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT MOVING
SOUTH ACROSS THE NORTHERN OUTLOOK AREA LATE THIS MORNING. THIS FRONT
WILL HELP PROVIDE THE NECESSARY LIFT FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS MOST OF THE OUTLOOK AREA EAST OF
THE MOUNTAINS. GIVEN THE INSTABILITY AND INCREASING WINDS ALOFT IN
THE ATMOSPHERE...SOME OF THE STORMS THAT FORM TODAY COULD BECOME
SEVERE...ESPECIALLY IN TH*E VICINITY OF THE FRONT.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.

TURNAGE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	47 min
May 9, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson	51 min
May 10, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	48 min
May 10, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland, Upton	49 min
May 10, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	49 min
May 10, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	46 min
May 10, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	47 min
May 10, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Midland	49 min
May 10, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	62 min

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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.