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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

February 22, 2000Mitchell County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 22, 2000, 2:37 PM CST for Mitchell County, Texas. It was in force for 38 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: Feb 22, 2000, 2:37 PM CST (20:37 UTC)
Expired: Feb 22, 2000, 3:15 PM CST
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties

County Mitchell County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:38 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Feb 22, 1:15 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 127 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: 350 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -278 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1040 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 255 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 269 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

539 
WUUS54 KMAF 222045
SVRMAF
TXC335-222115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND-ODESSA TX
ISSUED BY SAN ANGELO TX
237 PM CST TUE FEB 22 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND-ODESSA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN MITCHELL COUNTY IN NORTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 315 PM CST

* AT 233 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTH OF LORAINE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF COLORADO CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING
AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 22, 12:10 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Upton	45 min
Feb 22, 1:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan, Upton	42 min
Feb 22, 1:20 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Reagan	25 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2000 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.