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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1996, 6:14 PM CDT for Howard County, Texas. It was in force for 46 min. 3 reports 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, 6:14 PM CDT (23:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1996, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Howard County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 6:30 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Big Spring, TX | |
| May 10, 6:40 PM CDT | Hail 4.5 | Big Spring, TX | |
| May 10, 6:45 PM CDT | Hail 5 | Big Spring, 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 102314 SVRMAF TXC227-110000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX 614 PM CDT FRI MAY 10 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 NORTHWEST TEXAS ...SOUTHERN HOWARD COUNTY AT 612 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND DOPPLER RADAR IN THE VICINITY OF BIG SPRING MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE BIG SPRING AND FORSAN. 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 COVERS THE ROAD. $$ MATHEWS
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 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 10, 2:42 PM CDT, 3 hours 32 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
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, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 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, 6:38 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 |
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.