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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

June 13, 2002Midland County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2002, 5:59 PM CDT for Midland County, Texas. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 13, 2002, 5:59 PM CDT (22:59 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2002, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Midland County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:58 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
Jun 13, 6:17 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Midland, TX	Reported at the intersection of Highways 1213 and 349.

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
Jun 13, 2:45 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 21 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: 1243 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -319 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1431 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 153 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KMAF 132259
SVRMAF
TXC329-132330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
559 PM CDT THU JUN 13 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MIDLAND COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 558 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 17 MILES NORTH OF GREENWOOD...OR ABOUT 16 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF STANTON...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
  MIDLAND...VALLEY VIEW...MIDLAND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT...WARFIELD...
  GREENWOOD...SPRABERRY AND COTTON FLAT

WINDS AS HIGH AS 70 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM... PARTICULARLY 
IN MIDLAND AND GREENWOOD. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

LAT...LON 3208 10180 3207 10227 3167 10228 3166 10178

$$

GJ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 4:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson	40 min
Jun 13, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	49 min
Jun 13, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Winkler	44 min
Jun 13, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Crane, Ward	39 min
Jun 13, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson, Martin	32 min
Jun 13, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	58 min
Jun 13, 5:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	55 min
Jun 13, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ward	34 min
Jun 13, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	62 min
Jun 13, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	54 min
Jun 13, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	67 min
Jun 13, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	45 min
Jun 13, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	53 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.