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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

February 25, 2000Reagan County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 25, 2000, 12:50 AM CST for Reagan County, Texas. It was in force for 55 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: Feb 25, 2000, 12:50 AM CST (06:50 UTC)
Expired: Feb 25, 2000, 1:45 AM CST
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Reagan County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:53 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
Feb 25, 1:36 AM CST	Hail 1.75	Stiles, TX

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
Feb 25, 12:00 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 83 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 250651
SVRMAF
TXC383-250745-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1250 AM CST FRI FEB 25 2000

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 145 AM CST

* AT 1248 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF TEXON...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...             
  NORTH REAGAN FIRE STATION...STILES...BEST...TEXON AND BIG LAKE.

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 3164 10175 3113 10175 3113 10129 3164 10130

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, 12:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	61 min
Feb 25, 12:33 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MAF	Glasscock	42 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

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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.