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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 16, 2001Borden County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 2001, 5:58 PM CDT for Borden County, Texas. It was in force for 62 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 16, 2001, 5:58 PM CDT (22:58 UTC)
Expired: Apr 16, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 62 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), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 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 16, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 114 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: 65 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -286 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1108 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 194 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 254 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.4

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The text

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

871 
WUUS54 KMAF 162300
SVRMAF
TXC033-170000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
558 PM CDT MON APR 16 2001

THE MIDLAND/ODESSA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 558 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED    
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTH OF MESQUITE...OR 10 MILES WEST 
  OF GAIL...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...             
  LAKE J.B. THOMAS...GAIL AND MESQUITE.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE IF 
TIME PERMITS. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WINDS TO NEAR 60 MPH ARE
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. REMEMBER...A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 57 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.

LAT...LON 3294 10168 3253 10168 3253 10120 3294 10119

SMALLCOMB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 16, 6:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	58 min
Apr 16, 6:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Howard	47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.