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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 19, 2000Andrews County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2000, 6:56 AM CDT for Andrews County, Texas. It was in force for 59 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 19, 2000, 6:56 AM CDT (11:56 UTC)
Expired
May 19, 2000, 7:55 AM CDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Andrews County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 57 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 2000-05-19Temperature 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 00:00Z on 2000-05-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -17 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
4726 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 19, 8:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGlasscock, Reagan50 min
May 19, 10:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMartin, Midland38 min
May 19, 11:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFGlasscock, Reagan42 min
May 19, 12:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFEctor25 min
May 19, 12:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMidland37 min
May 19, 12:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFUpton47 min
May 19, 1:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMartin29 min
May 19, 2:06 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMAFHoward3 hr

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.