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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 28, 2000Terrell County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 2000, 10:21 PM CDT for Terrell County, Texas. It was in force for 54 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 28, 2000, 10:21 PM CDT (03:21 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 2000, 11:15 PM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Terrell County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Apr 28, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 1286 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2134 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 138 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.2

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The text

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

071 
WUUS54 KMAF 290322
SVRMAF
TXC443-290415-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1021 PM CDT FRI APR 28 2000

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN TERRELL COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 1115 PM CDT

* AT 1021 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 21 MILES WEST OF THE TERRELL GAS PLANT...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...             
  THE TERRELL GAS PLANT.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS...WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...VERY HEAVY
RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS SEVERE 
THUNDERSTORM.
 
WHEN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH...YOU SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG
BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORM PASSES...EXCEPT IN AN
EMERGENCY. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO FLOODED LOW WATER
CROSSINGS.

LAT...LON 3049 10234 3022 10228 3018 10179 3065 10176
          3062 10209

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 28, 7:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	56 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.