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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 2000, 6:27 PM CST for Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 48 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 31, 2000, 6:27 PM CST (00:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2000, 7:15 PM CST
- In force
- 48 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), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:31 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 31, 7:00 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind | Midland, TX | Thunderstorm winds turned over a chicken coop and broke trailer windows. |
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 31, 4:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 19 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
- 97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 930 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 79 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 478 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS54 KMAF 010029
SVRMAF
TXC329-010115-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
627 PM CST FRI MAR 31 2000
THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN MIDLAND COUNTY IN TEXAS
* UNTIL 715 PM CST
* AT 626 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPRABERRY...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
SPRABERRY...AND RURAL PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN MIDLAND COUNTY.
THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL ALSO PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH WILL CAUSE
FLOODING OF LOW SPOTS...AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS. IF YOU ENCOUNTER A
FLOODED STRETCH OF ROADWAY...DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS IT. THE WATER
MAY BE DEEPER THAN IT APPEARS
A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THIS AREA.
LAT...LON 3180 10227 3166 10227 3167 10180 3206 10179
3192 10201
RSBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 6:05 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Midland | 4 hr |
| Mar 31, 6:46 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Midland | 29 min |
| Mar 31, 7:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 63 min |
| Mar 31, 10:00 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Midland | 4 hr |
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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.