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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

February 8, 2001Scurry County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 8, 2001, 9:08 PM CST for Scurry County, Texas. It was in force for 52 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: Feb 8, 2001, 9:08 PM CST (03:08 UTC)
Expired: Feb 8, 2001, 10:00 PM CST
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Scurry County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:11 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 8, 9:21 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind	Snyder, TX	High winds produced by a severe thunderstorm resulted in the roof blowing off a 30' X 70'' commercial building and then landing on two parked cars in an adjacent parking lot.
Feb 8, 9:24 PM CST	Hail 0.88	Snyder, 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 8, 9:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 147 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: 247 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -99 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1237 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 84 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 302 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 256 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 3.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

767 
WUUS54 KMAF 090309
SVRMAF
TXC415-090400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
908 PM CST THU FEB 8 2001

THE MIDLAND/ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1000 PM CST

* AT 907 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF KNAPP...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60
  TO 65 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...             
  KNAPP...RANDALLS CORNER...DERMOTT...ARAH...UNION...IRA...DUNN...
  INADALE...HERMLEIGH...THE MIDWAY COMMUNITY...HUDD AND SNYDER.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN
THE WARNED AREA.

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.

LAT...LON 3285 10118 3253 10118 3253 10068 3296 10067
          3296 10104

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 8, 8:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard, Martin	50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.