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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 10, 1996Midland County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1996, 7:17 PM CDT for Midland 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, 7:17 PM CDT (00:17 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 1996, 8:05 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Midland County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:19 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, 7:28 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Spraberry, 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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 18 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: 969 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2518 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 110017
SVRMAF
TXC329-110105-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
717 PM CDT FRI MAY 10 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND TX HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 805 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS

   ...EASTERN MIDLAND COUNTY
 
AT 716 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY MIDLAND
DOPPLER RADAR 33 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BIG SPRING OR 2 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF SPRABERRY MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE... SPRABERRY AND
GREENWOOD.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK REFUGE FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG
BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY
FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

$$

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, 4 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 10, 2:42 PM CDT, 4 hours 35 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 10, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	48 min
May 10, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	62 min
May 10, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	49 min
May 10, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	51 min
May 10, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	63 min
May 10, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	50 min
May 10, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Terrell	45 min
May 10, 9:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	36 min
May 10, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Terrell	65 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.