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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

February 24, 2000Glasscock County, Midland County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 24, 2000, 11:49 PM CST for Glasscock County, Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 56 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, 11:49 PM CST (05:49 UTC)
Expired: Feb 25, 2000, 12:45 AM CST
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Glasscock County, TX, Midland County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:42 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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 34 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMAF 250551
SVRMAF
TXC173-329-250645-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1149 PM CST THU FEB 24 2000

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GLASSCOCK COUNTY IN TEXAS
  MIDLAND COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 1245 AM CST

* AT 1148 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPRABERRY...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...                
  VALLEY VIEW...GREENWOOD...SPRABERRY...COTTON FLAT.

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.

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.

LAT...LON 3201 10224 3169 10182 3205 10130 3209 10161
          3209 10169

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 24, 11:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Howard	51 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

Nearby

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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.