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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 30, 2000Borden County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 2000, 6:50 PM CDT for Borden County, Texas. It was in force for 55 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 30, 2000, 6:50 PM CDT (23:50 UTC)
Expired
Apr 30, 2000, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Borden County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:51 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 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 124 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 12:00Z on 2000-04-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2000-04-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -13 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2864 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KMAF 302351
SVRMAF
TXC033-010045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
650 PM CDT SUN APR 30 2000

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 650 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ON THE BORDEN/DAWSON COUNTY LINE 4 MILES 
  NORTHWEST OF MESQUITE...OR 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF GAIL...MOVING
  EAST AT 45 TO 50 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...             
  MESQUITE.

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF
GOLFBALLS...WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.

IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER
AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD-PRONE AREAS. 

LAT...LON 3296 10168 3279 10168 3275 10118 3296 10118

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 29, 7:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBorden, Scurry59 min
Apr 30, 5:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGaines57 min
Apr 30, 6:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFDawson60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2000Every 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.