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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 170, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 28, 2000, 1:18 PM CDT for Gaines County, Texas. It was in force for 42 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
- Oct 28, 2000, 1:18 PM CDT (18:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 28, 2000, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gaines County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 11:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 878 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 649 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMAF 281818 SVRMAF TXC165-281900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 118 PM CDT SAT OCT 28 2000 THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GAINES COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 200 PM CDT * AT 113 PM CDT...A STORM SPOTTER REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF PAYNES CORNER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... CEDAR LAKE...THE FAIRVIEW COMMUNITY...ASHMORE...LOOP...PAYNES CORNER...SEMINOLE AND SEAGRAVES. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THIS AREA. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING...SO BE PREPARED TO ACT QUICKLY IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED. LAtT...LON 3295 10293 3252 10276 3252 10232 3296 10221
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 28, 11:15 AM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 28, 11:15 AM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1115 AM CDT SAT OCT 28 2000 NOTICE TO CUSTOMERS...MEDIA...AND WFO/S ABQ AND LBB...BECAUSE OF THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT AND STAFFING CONSIDERATIONS...ROUTINE PUBLIC PRODUCT ISSUANCE WILL BE SUSPENDED UNTIL THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER ENDS ACROSS THE CWFA. ZONE AND STATE FORECASTS THIS AFTERNOON WILL BE IMPACTED. SORRY FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE THIS MAY CREATE...70. .MAF... TX...NONE. NM...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 28, 11:29 AM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-291100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1129 AM CDT SAT OCT 28 2000 HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS ONGOING OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO AND WEST TEXAS. PLEASE REFER TO LATER STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS FROM THE MIDLAND/ODESSA NWS OFFICE. 44
Special weather statement, Oct 28, 12:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-282100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1215 PM CDT SAT OCT 28 2000 TORNADO WATCH 764 HAS BEEN CLEARED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO... EDDY TORNADO WATCH 764 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST TEXAS... ANDREWS...BORDEN...BREWSTER...CRANE...DAWSON...ECTOR...GAINES... GLASSCOCK...HOWARD...JEFF DAVIS...LOVING...MARTIN...MIDLAND... MITCHELL...PECOS...REAGAN...REEVES...SCURRY...TERRELL...UPTON... WARD...WINKLER AND IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO... LEA 70
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 1:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 59 min |
| Oct 28, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 62 min |
| Oct 28, 2:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Upton | 3 hr |
| Oct 28, 3:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Pecos, Reagan, Terrell | 3 hr |
| Oct 28, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Terrell | 62 min |
| Oct 28, 3:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 3 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.