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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 14, 1996Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1996, 1:50 AM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 60 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 14, 1996, 1:50 AM CDT (06:50 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 1996, 2:50 AM CDT
In force: 60 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 06:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 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.

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 4119 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 201 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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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 13, 2:55 PM CDT, 10 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 13, 2:55 PM CDT, 10 hours 55 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND TX
253 PM CDT MON MAY 13 1996

ANALYSIS OF LATEST WV LOOP (THANKS TO LBB TEAM) SHOWS SHORT WAVE
VORT MAX MOVING THROUGH AZ. BELIEVE THIS FEATURE WILL INFLUENCE TRW
ACTIVITY FOR SOME OF WESTERN ZONES THIS PM. EXTREME AFTERNOON
TEMPERATURES HAVE ALREADY PRODUCED ISOLATED TRW ACTIVITY IN REEVES
AND PECOS COUNTIES. ALTHOUGH TIMING OF MAX HEATING AND SHORT WAVE
APPROACHING IS NOT THE BEST...BELIEVE A CHANCE FOR ISOLATED TRWS
STILL EXISTS. SUGGEST INCLUDING TRW WORDING FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING FOR ZONES SOUTH AND WEST OF PECOS RIVER.

NO GRIDDS DATA AVAILABLE FROM SRH...NOT SURE WHY? HOWEVER...BELIEVE
INTERACTION BETWEEN APPROACHING SHORT WAVE AND SURFACE TROF WILL
PRODUCE POPS.

AS FOR TEMPERATURES...BELIEVE DEWPOINTS WILL REMAIN RELATIVELY
UNCHANGED OVER MOST OF PERMIAN BASIN. THUS...GUIDANCE APPEARS
RESONABLE WITH LOWS TONIGHT FOR MAF IN THE MID 60S RANGE.

AS FOR WINDS...BELIEVE PREVIOUS PACKAGE LOOKS GOOD.

THANKS TO LBB FOR COORDINATION.

CNM 63 10
MAF 64  0
MRF 57 10
P07 69  0

HUBER

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 13, 8:57 PM CDT, 4 hours 53 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 13, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	50 min
May 13, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden	49 min
May 13, 7:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	46 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.