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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 27, 2000Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 2000, 7:59 PM CDT for Pecos 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
Apr 27, 2000, 7:59 PM CDT (00:59 UTC)
Expired
Apr 27, 2000, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Pecos County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:01 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, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 106 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 00:00Z on 2000-04-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1322 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2000-04-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1322 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-206 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2061 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
173 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KMAF 280103
SVRMAF
TXC371-280200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
759 PM CDT THU APR 27 2000

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 755 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT STOCKTON MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS...WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH...AND LOCALIZED 
FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING MEANS THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE
OCCURRING OR IMMINENT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 57 MPH...HAILSTONES THE SIZE OF DIMES OR LARGER...OR BOTH.

LAT...LON 3108 10277 3095 10263 3109 10250 3123 10264

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 27, 7:36 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFPecos4 hr
Apr 27, 9:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFTerrell52 min
Apr 28, 6:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFReeves63 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.