Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

February 25, 2000Upton County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 25, 2000, 12:29 AM CST for Upton County, Texas. It was in force for 61 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 25, 2000, 12:29 AM CST (06:29 UTC)
Expired: Feb 25, 2000, 1:30 AM CST
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Upton County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:33 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
Feb 25, 12:00 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 69 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 250631
SVRMAF
TXC461-250730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1229 AM CST FRI FEB 25 2000

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 130 AM CST

* AT 1228 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 4 MILES SOUTHEAST
  OF MIDKIFF TO 12 MILES NORTH OF RANKIN TO MCCAMEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...             
  MIDKIFF...RANKIN AND MCCAMEY.

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 3165 10184 3144 10207 3111 10229 3110 10179
          3128 10178 3156 10179

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 24, 11:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Midland	56 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, 12:33 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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2000 Every 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.