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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

October 23, 2000Brewster County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 23, 2000, 4:51 PM CDT for Brewster County, Texas. It was in force for 69 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 23, 2000, 4:51 PM CDT (21:51 UTC)
Expired: Oct 23, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 69 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Brewster County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 205 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:52 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 205 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: 1362 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -56 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 647 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 201 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 226 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 6.3

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KMAF 232152
SVRMAF
TXC043-232300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
451 PM CDT MON OCT 23 2000

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BREWSTER COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 447 PM CDT...A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER REPORTED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL BREWSTER COUNTY...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

HAILSTONES AS LARGE AS GOLF BALLS HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A
GARAGE IF TIME PERMITS.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER 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.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
OFFICE.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS...FOR THE
LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.

LAT...LON 3035 10348 3030 10342 3041 10310 3065 10344

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 23, 4:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	57 min
Oct 23, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	56 min
Oct 23, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	64 min
Oct 23, 6:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Brewster, Jeff Davis, Pecos, Presidio	4 hr

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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.