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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 25, 2000, 1:51 AM CST for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 54 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
- Feb 25, 2000, 1:51 AM CST (07:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2000, 2:45 AM CST
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Borden County, TX, Howard County, TX, Mitchell County, TX, Scurry County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:53 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 12:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 1080 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -114 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1676 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 250754 SVRMAF TXC033-227-335-415-250845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 151 AM CST FRI FEB 25 2000 THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN BORDEN COUNTY IN TEXAS EASTERN HOWARD COUNTY IN TEXAS MITCHELL COUNTY IN TEXAS SCURRY COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 245 AM CST * AT 151 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 5 MILES EAST OF GAIL TO JUST EAST OF BIG SPRING...MOVING NORTHEAST 30 MPH * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... CUTHBERT...KNAPP...RANDALLS CORNER...LAKE J.B. THOMAS...FLUVANNA... DERMOTT...ARAH...IRA...DUNN...CHINA GROVE...HERMLEIGH...HUDD... SOUTH HAVEN...SAND SPRINGS...LUTHER...VINCENT...WESTBROOK... SNYDER...LORAINE...COLORADO CITY...COAHOMA AND BIG SPRING. HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE IF TIME PERMITS...AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. LARGE HAIL...WIND GUSTS UP TO 80 MPH...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED APREA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THIS AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS...FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 3295 10140 3210 10151 3212 10069 3294 10068
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 11:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Howard | 51 min |
| Feb 24, 11:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Midland | 56 min |
| Feb 25, 12:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 60 min |
| Feb 25, 12:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 59 min |
| Feb 25, 12:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 61 min |
| Feb 25, 12:33 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 42 min |
| Feb 25, 12:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 55 min |
| Feb 25, 12:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 54 min |
| Feb 25, 12:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 61 min |
| Feb 25, 1:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 60 min |
| Feb 25, 1:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 60 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.