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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 24, 2000, 11:24 PM CST for Borden County, Howard County, Texas. It was in force for 51 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
- Feb 24, 2000, 11:24 PM CST (05:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2000, 12:15 AM CST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Borden County, TX, Howard County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:24 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 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 1080 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -114 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1676 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMAF 250525 SVRMAF TXC033-227-250615- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 1124 PM CST THU FEB 24 2000 THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BORDEN COUNTY IN TEXAS HOWARD COUNTY IN TEXAS * UNTIL 1215 AM CST * AT 1118 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES WEST OF KNOTT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... LAKE J.B. THOMAS...GAIL...KNOTT...VEALMOOR AND LUTHER. IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD-PRONE AREAS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 57 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. LAT...LON 3252 10169 3229 10168 3262 10119 3292 10154
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 11:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Midland | 56 min |
| Feb 25, 12:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 60 min |
| Feb 25, 12:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 59 min |
| Feb 25, 12:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 61 min |
| Feb 25, 12:33 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 42 min |
| Feb 25, 12:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 55 min |
| Feb 25, 12:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 54 min |
| Feb 25, 12:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 61 min |
| Feb 25, 1:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 60 min |
| Feb 25, 1:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 60 min |
| Feb 25, 1:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden, Howard, Mitchell, Scurry | 54 min |
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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.