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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 25, 2000Dawson County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2000, 5:28 PM CDT for Dawson County, Texas. It was in force for 47 min. 2 reports 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: May 25, 2000, 5:28 PM CDT (22:28 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2000, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Dawson County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:31 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
May 25, 5:32 PM CDT	Hail 1.5	Welch, TX	Intense single cell storm. Developed in Gaines County and moved northeast into NW Dawson.
May 25, 5:48 PM CDT	Hail 2	Welch, TX	Second cell developed on southern flank of cell #1 and continued northeast into southern Lynn Co.

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
May 25, 5:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 104 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: 86 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -494 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2989 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 179 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 117 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.

051 
WUUS54 KMAF 252228
SVRMAF
TXC115-252315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
528 PM CDT THU MAY 25 2000

THE MIDLAND-ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN DAWSON COUNTY IN TEXAS

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 523 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF PUNKIN CENTER...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. ADDITIONAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHEAST
  GAINES COUNTY WILL LIKELY  MOVE INTO NORTHWEST DAWSON COUNTY AS
  WELL.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...             
  PUNKIN CENTER...GRANDVIEW...PRIDE AND WELCH.

LARGE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 80 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED
AREA.

A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THIS AREA. SEVERE 
THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH 
LITTLE OR NO WARNING...SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT.

LAT...LON 3296 10220 3276 10219 3278 10195 3296 10191

DJK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	48 min
May 25, 5:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Gaines	24 min
May 25, 5:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Dawson	24 min
May 25, 5:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Dawson	32 min
May 25, 6:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Dawson	3 hr
May 25, 6:28 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Reagan	3 hr
May 25, 6:36 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Pecos, Terrell	3 hr
May 25, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Borden, Dawson	50 min
May 25, 6:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Borden	49 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.