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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

March 22, 2000Midland County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 22, 2000, 8:23 PM CST for Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 67 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 22, 2000, 8:23 PM CST (02:23 UTC)
Expired: Mar 22, 2000, 9:30 PM CST
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Midland County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:23 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 22, 7:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 20 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: 111 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -178 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1659 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 179 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 290 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 230226
SVRMAF
TXC329-230330-

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

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 930 PM CST

* AT 818 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTH OF COTTON FLAT...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 25 MPH.  A SECOND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES
  SOUTH OF PLEASANT FARMS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. 

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

HAILSTONES AS LARGE AS QUARTERS HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF PLEASANT FARMS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF 
THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE IF TIME PERMITS.

LARGE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 80 MPH CA)N BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED
AREA.

LAT...LON 3170 10228 3167 10188 3192 10176 3207 10211

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 22, 6:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	44 min
Mar 22, 6:06 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Glasscock	24 min
Mar 22, 6:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Upton	51 min
Mar 22, 6:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Glasscock	46 min
Mar 22, 6:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell	44 min
Mar 22, 6:39 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Mitchell, Scurry	36 min
Mar 22, 6:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane	56 min
Mar 22, 6:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	46 min
Mar 22, 7:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Howard, Mitchell	43 min
Mar 22, 7:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	44 min
Mar 22, 7:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	57 min
Mar 22, 7:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Mitchell	61 min
Mar 22, 7:40 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Borden, Howard, Martin, Mitchell, Scurry	3 hr
Mar 22, 7:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	49 min
Mar 22, 7:41 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Glasscock	49 min
Mar 22, 7:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane	50 min
Mar 22, 8:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	30 min
Mar 22, 8:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	59 min
Mar 22, 8:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell	67 min
Mar 22, 9:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	45 min
Mar 22, 9:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	42 min
Mar 22, 9:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Reagan	46 min
Mar 22, 10:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland, Upton	48 min
Mar 22, 10:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Reagan	43 min
Mar 22, 10:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Howard	49 min
Mar 22, 10:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	48 min
Mar 22, 11:00 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Borden, Crane, Glasscock, Howard, Midland, Mitchell and 4 more	4 hr
Mar 22, 11:10 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Glasscock	50 min
Mar 22, 11:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Howard	47 min
Mar 23, 12:16 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Reagan	44 min
Mar 23, 12:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	40 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.