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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 9, 2000Reagan County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2000, 8:40 PM CDT for Reagan County, Texas. It was in force for 65 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Jun 9, 2000, 8:40 PM CDT (01:40 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 2000, 9:45 PM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Reagan County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:40 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 101 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 163 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 00:00Z on 2000-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 12 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
163 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2278 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

566 
WUUS54 KMAF 100142
SVRMAF
TXC383-100245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
840 PM CDT FRI JUN 9 2000

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN REAGAN COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 945 PM CDT

* AT 836 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BIG LAKE...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...             
  BIG LAKE.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN
THE WARNED AREA.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THIS REGION.
THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY ALSO PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING WHICH MAY CAUSE
FLOODING OF LOW SPOTS...UNDERPASSES...AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS. IF YOU
ENCOUNTER A FLOODED STRETCH OF ROADWAY...DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS IT.
THE WATER MAY BE DEEPER THAN IT APPEARS

LAT...LON 3110 10161 3110 10129 3162 10128 3161 10146

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 8:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFHoward44 min
Jun 9, 8:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFReagan60 min
Jun 9, 8:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFReagan4 hr
Jun 9, 9:05 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFHoward, Mitchell6 hr
Jun 9, 9:22 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFPecos, Terrell4 hr
Jun 9, 10:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster61 min
Jun 9, 11:40 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFReagan4 hr
Jun 10, 4:39 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFPecos3 hr
Jun 10, 6:28 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFBrewster, Pecos4 hr
Jun 10, 6:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster60 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.