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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 144, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

October 17, 2000Presidio County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 17, 2000, 3:59 PM CDT for Presidio County, Texas. It was in force for 46 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: Oct 17, 2000, 3:59 PM CDT (20:59 UTC)
Expired: Oct 17, 2000, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Presidio County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 249 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 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 nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 249 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: 1777 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 603 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 129 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.

000 
WUUS54 KMAF 172100
SVRMAF
TXC377-172145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
359 PM CDT TUE OCT 17 2000

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN PRESIDIO COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 445 PM CDT

* AT 356 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTH OF MARFA...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...             
  MARFA.

TWO THUNDERSTORMS WERE MERGING ACROSS NORTHEAST PRESIDIO COUNTY. AT 
THIS TIME THE STORMS ARE DRIFTING BACK TOWARD MARFA AND COULD AFFECT 
THE TOWN ONCE AGAIN.

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

LAT...LON 3041 10390 3045 10411 3030 10426 3017 10426
          3019 10380 3040 10380

DJK

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 Oct 17, 3:29 PM CDT, 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 17, 3:29 PM CDT, 30 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
329 PM CDT TUE OCT 17 2000

WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAIN EVENT SETTING UP FOR TONIGHT AND TOMORROW
MORNING.  A STRONG H5 S/WV LOCATED OVER CNTRL NM COMBINED WITH AN
UPPER LEVEL JET MAX AND ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE WILL RESULT IN
NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BEING CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY
HEAVY RAINFALL THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT.  FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE
AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS SOME STORMS COULD PRODUCE
SEVERE WEATHER...MAINLY WEST OF THE PECOS IN AREAS THAT HAVE RECEIVED
PLENTY OF SUNSHINE. DUE TO SITUATION...HAVE GONE WITH FFA TONIGHT
FOR ALL ZONES IN THE CWA.  AS S/WV BEGINS TO MOVE EAST OF AREA
TOMORROW...HAVE TAPERED CHANCES OFF FROM WEST TO EAST ACROSS AREA...
HOWEVER SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS AND CONTINUED HEAVY
RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS A LARGE PORTION OF WEST TEXAS
TOMORROW MORNING.  AFTER THAT...SUBSIDENCE BEHIND EXITING SYSTEM
WILL GIVE THE AREA A BREAK FOR A FEW DAYS BEFORE THE NEXT SERIES OF
S/WVS PROGRESSES THROUGH IN THE EXTENDED PERIOD.

MAF  56/69/55/78   5500
LSA  48/70/50/77   6400
E41  57/66/57/77   5500
6R6  62/73/63/77   6500
M#RF  54/72/50/73   6300
CNM  52/77/52/79   6300

.MAF...
TX...FFA TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075-079>082-258-
     181000.
NM...FFA NMZ027>029-033-034-181000.

MARTIN

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 17, 3:17 PM CDT, 42 minutes before

NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075-
079>082-258-180300-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
317 PM CDT TUE OCT 17 2000

.SYNOPSIS...
AN UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM OVER NEW MEXICO IS MOVING SOUTH. THIS
ALONG WITH A MOIST UNSTABLE AIRMASS AND A FAVORABLE JET STREAM
POSITION IS RESULTING IN AN INCREASED RISK OF AN ORGANIZED HEAVY
RAIN EVENT.

.THREATS...

THUNDERSTORMS...
INITIALLY THE FAVORED AREA FOR THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY
RAIN...HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS...WILL BE IN AND NEAR THE MOUNTAINS.
MODERATE INSTABILITY AND WEAK WINDS ALOFT SUGGEST THAT MOST OF THESE
STORMS WILL NOT BE SEVERE.  HOWEVER...A FEW STORMS MAY PRODUCE
ISOLATED HAIL TO NEAR 1 INCH...GUSTY WINDS TO NEAR 55 MPH...AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING.

HEAVY RAIN AND FLASH FLOODING
AN ABUNDANCE OF MOISTURE AND WEAK STEERING WINDS FAVORS VERY HEAVY
RAIN WITH THE RISK OF FLASH FLOODING. RECENT HEAVY RAINS HAVE
RESULTED IN FLOWING WATER IN NORMALLY DRY CREEKS AND ARROYOS IN
BREWSTER...PRESIDIO...AND EDDY COUNTIES. HEAVY RAINS ACROSS SCURRY...
MITCHELL...AND HOWARD COUNTIES TUESDAY MORNING HAVE RESULTED IN
INCREASED WATER LEVELS ALONG BEALS AND DEEP CREEK AND ADDITIONAL
HEAVY RAINS WILL LIKELY RESULT IN RISING WATERS. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH
IS IN EFFECT TONIGHT...REFER TO LBBFFAMAF.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 16, 8:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Pecos	3 hr
Oct 16, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	3 hr
Oct 17, 3:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Jeff Davis, Presidio	44 min
Oct 17, 3:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Presidio	3 hr

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.