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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

March 14, 2000Brewster County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 14, 2000, 3:22 PM CST for Brewster County, Texas. It was in force for 53 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
Mar 14, 2000, 3:22 PM CST (21:22 UTC)
Expired
Mar 14, 2000, 4:15 PM CST
In force
53 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), 224 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:26 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 nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 224 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-03-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 325 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2000-03-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
325 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-172 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
854 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
63 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.

000 
WUUS54 KMAF 142125
SVRMAF
TXC043-142215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
322 PM CST TUE MAR 14 2000

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 415 PM CST

* AT 324 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MARATHON...MOVING       
  EAST AT 10 MPH.

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

LAT...LON 3014 10345 2999 10324 3017 10300 3036 10324

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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.