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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

November 14, 2001Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 14, 2001, 1:14 PM CST for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 46 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: Nov 14, 2001, 1:14 PM CST (19:14 UTC)
Expired: Nov 14, 2001, 2:00 PM CST
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Pecos County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:14 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 121 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: 1336 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 686 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 46 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.

731 
WUUS54 KMAF 141916
SVRMAF
TXC371-142000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
114 PM CST WED NOV 14 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN PECOS COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 200 PM CST

* AT 114 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES EAST OF BAKERSFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST 
  AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
  INTERSTATE 10 AND OPEN COUNTRY OF EASTERN PECOS COUNTY.

THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAINS. 
TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

LAT...LON 3079 10228 3074 10205 3098 10198 3100 10223

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Nov 14, 10:20 AM CST, 2 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 14, 10:20 AM CST, 2 hours 54 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1020 AM CST WED NOV 14 2001

ADDED FLASH FLOOD WATCH NORTHEAST PERMIAN BASIN.  RADAR
ESTIMATES THIS MORNING OF OVER 3 INCHES HAVE FALLEN
OVER SCURRY...HOWARD AND NORTHERN GLASSCOCK COUNTIES.
ADDITIONAL CELLS HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS THE SOUTHERN
PERMIAN BASIN AND ARE EXPECTED TO TRAIN ACROSS ABOVE
AREAS OF EARLIER HEAVY RAINS.  RRF

----------------------------------------------------------------
UPR LVL VORT CUTOFF LOW LOCATED NEAR THE FOUR CORNERS AREA AND IS
CONTINUING ITS SOUTHEASTERN PROGRESS.  IT IS PROGD TO DROP INTO NRN
MEXICO BY THE END OF THE DAY TODAY.  ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE
WILL COMBINE WITH ENERGY FROM THIS FEATURE WILL RESULT IN SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER A LARGE PORTION OF THE CWA TODAY.  WITH THE
UPR LVL LOW NOT PROGD TO MOVE MUCH THROUGH THE PERIOD...AREA WILL
SEE GOOD SHOT AT RAIN THROUGH FRIDAY.  HAVE NOT CHANGED MUCH TO THE
PAST FORECAST EXCEPT TO TWEAK WITH TIMING ISSUES AND A FEW POP
VALUES.  DEPENDING ON HOW MUCH RAIN GETS DROPPED OVER THE AREA WILL
HAVE TO CONTINUE TO MONITOR FOR POTENTIAL FFA.  HOWEVER AT THIS
TIME WILL NOT ISSUE ONE SINCE GROUND CONDITIONS HAVE BEEN DRY FOR
THE PAST MONTH OR TWO.

FOR THE EXTENDED...UPR LVL LOW SLOWLY BEGINS TO PULL EAST OF THE
AREA.  NO CHANGES TO THE EXTENDED WORDING.

MAF  65/53/60/50    7663
LSA  61/49/60/49    7664
6R6  66/54/63/51    6553
MRF  66/46/61/42    5553
CNM  62/48/60/43    5554

.MAF...
TX...FLASH FLOOD WATCH NE PERMIAN BASIN...
     TXZ046-047-048-051-052-053-063.
NM...NONE.

16/01

In the hours before

Local storm report, Nov 14, 12:17 PM CST, 57 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
117 PM CDT WED NOV 14 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1150 AM    15 WNW GARDEN CITY        TX   FLOOD
11/14/01   GLASSCOCK                      RISING WATER, TWO FEET
                                          IN DEPTH, WAS REPORTED
                                          RUNNING OVER HIGHWAY
                                          137 AT JOHNSON DRAW.

Local storm report, Nov 14, 12:17 PM CST, 57 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED TO CST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
1217 PM CST WED NOV 14 2001

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1150 AM    15 WNW GARDEN CITY        TX   FLOOD
11/14/01   GLASSCOCK                      RISING WATER, TWO FEET
                                          IN DEPTH, WAS REPORTED
                                          RUNNING OVER HIGHWAY
                                          137 AT JOHNSON DRAW.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 14, 10:45 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Glasscock, Howard	4 hr
Nov 14, 11:40 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Midland	4 hr
Nov 14, 12:07 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Upton	4 hr
Nov 14, 12:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	46 min
Nov 14, 2:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	65 min
Nov 14, 3:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Brewster	45 min
Nov 14, 3:40 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Howard	4 hr
Nov 14, 4:39 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MAF	Pecos	4 hr
Nov 14, 5:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Terrell	55 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.