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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

March 22, 2000Martin County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 22, 2000, 4:00 AM CST for Martin County, Texas. It was in force for 45 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 22, 2000, 4:00 AM CST (10:00 UTC)
Expired: Mar 22, 2000, 4:45 AM CST
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Martin County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:04 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 22, 4:10 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Tarzan, TX	Thunderstorm outflow winds damaged farm equipment.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 21, 11:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Mar 22, 1:15 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 39 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: 14 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3806 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KMAF 221001
SVRMAF
TXC317-221045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
400 AM CST WED MAR 22 2000

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MARTIN COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 445 AM CST

* AT 358 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TARZAN...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...             
  BUFORD...TARZAN...LENORAH...GRADY...THREE LEAGUES...BROWN AND
  FLOWER GROVE.

HAILSTONES AS LARGE AS QUARTERS 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 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.

A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THIS AREA.

LAT...LON 3224 10220 3210 10210 3219 10178 3250 10171
          3250 10199

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 Mar 22, 12:24 AM CST, 3 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 22, 12:24 AM CST, 3 hours 36 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1224 AM CST WED MAR 22 2000

DUE TO ONGOING SEVERE WEATHER...ROUTINE PUBLIC PRODUCTS WILL BE
DELAYED THIS MORNING.  HOPE TO HAVE THE ZONE FORECASTS OUT BY 600
AM.  APOLOGIES FOR ANY INCONVENIENCES...70.

.MAF...
TX...NONE.
NM...NONE.

MARTIN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 21, 7:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	51 min
Mar 21, 7:18 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Scurry	42 min
Mar 21, 7:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	31 min
Mar 21, 11:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Gaines	67 min
Mar 22, 12:10 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ward, Winkler	65 min
Mar 22, 12:21 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Ward, Winkler	54 min
Mar 22, 12:38 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Andrews	37 min
Mar 22, 12:46 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Ector	44 min
Mar 22, 12:49 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Andrews, Gaines	2 hr
Mar 22, 12:54 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Gaines	36 min
Mar 22, 12:55 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	65 min
Mar 22, 1:09 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Winkler	36 min
Mar 22, 1:20 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Ector	55 min
Mar 22, 1:32 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	58 min
Mar 22, 1:56 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Andrews, Gaines	2 hr
Mar 22, 2:08 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Andrews, Ector	52 min
Mar 22, 2:40 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Ector	3 hr
Mar 22, 2:57 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews, Ector, Martin, Midland	63 min
Mar 22, 3:57 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson	48 min
Mar 22, 4:18 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Martin	117 min
Mar 22, 4:23 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Andrews	2 hr
Mar 22, 4:30 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Gaines	2 hr
Mar 22, 4:43 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Dawson	62 min
Mar 22, 5:33 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Dawson	3 hr
Mar 22, 1:45 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos	30 min
Mar 22, 2:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	45 min
Mar 22, 2:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	40 min
Mar 22, 2:59 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Upton	31 min
Mar 22, 3:15 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Upton	30 min
Mar 22, 3:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden	29 min
Mar 22, 3:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin, Midland	49 min
Mar 22, 3:53 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Pecos, Upton	3 hr
Mar 22, 3:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Pecos	37 min
Mar 22, 4:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Midland	42 min
Mar 22, 4:22 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Midland	3 hr
Mar 22, 4:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Upton	46 min
Mar 22, 4:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	52 min
Mar 22, 4:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	43 min
Mar 22, 4:54 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Glasscock	51 min
Mar 22, 5:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	44 min
Mar 22, 5:19 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Upton	26 min
Mar 22, 5:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Pecos	52 min
Mar 22, 5:34 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Crane, Glasscock, Midland, Pecos, Upton	2 hr
Mar 22, 5:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Howard	33 min
Mar 22, 5:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Midland	46 min
Mar 22, 5:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Mitchell	37 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.