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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

March 31, 2000Ward County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 2000, 5:43 PM CST for Ward County, Texas. It was in force for 32 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 31, 2000, 5:43 PM CST (23:43 UTC)
Expired
Mar 31, 2000, 6:15 PM CST
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Ward County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 31, 4:15 PM CSTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 80 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 2000-03-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2000-03-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 505 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
729 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
505 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
534 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.9

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KMAF 312343
SVRMAF
TXC475-010015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
543 PM CST FRI MAR 31 2000

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN WARD COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 615 PM CST

* AT 540 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTH OF MONAHANS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...             
  THE MONAHANS SANDHILLS STATE PARK...WICKETT AND MONAHANS.

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

A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THIS AREA.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS...FOR THE
LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.

LAT...LON 3164 10309 3143 10293 3149 10280 3155 10279
          3164 10279

RSB^

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 31, 5:29 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFCrane46 min
Mar 31, 5:52 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor, Midland38 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.