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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 277, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 24, 2002, 3:02 AM CDT for Reeves County, Texas. It was in force for 4 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 24, 2002, 3:02 AM CDT (08:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 27, 2002, 9:05 PM CST
- In force
- 4 days
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Reeves County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:02 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.
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 167 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 274 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 704 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 337 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
548 WUUS54 KMAF 240802 SVRMAF TXC389-240830- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 302 AM CDT THU OCT 24 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN REEVES COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 330 AM CDT * AT 302 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ORLA...OR ABOUT 28 MILES WEST OF MENTONE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... ORLA LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAINS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. INTENSE LIGHTNING IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS. LAT...LON 3185 10403 3170 10404 3177 10378 3190 10391
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 Oct 23, 9:47 PM CDT, 5 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 23, 9:47 PM CDT, 5 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 947 PM CDT WED OCT 23 2002 LATEST RADAR IMAGERY INDICATES CDFNT NEARLY STATIONARY FROM SE NM ACROSS WRN PERMIAN BASIN TO S OF KMAF. FNT STILL SHOWING A SWD PUSH IN ERN ZNS AND WILL LIKELY CLEAR REAGAN CO AFT MIDNIGHT HOWEVER SHOULD REMAIN STATIONARY FURTHER W AS SFC PRESSURES FALL IN RESPONSE TO APPROACHING TROUGH. PRECIP COVERAGE INCREASING ALONG TX/NM STATE LN W OF KINK ALTHOUGH BEST JET DYNAMICS THIS EVE HV BEEN FURTHER NW ACROSS CNTRL NM. WITH HEIGHTS FALLING OVERNIGHT...30-40KT LLVL JET AND SHALLOW SFC BOUNDARY ACROSS SRN PERMIAN BASIN EXPECT COVERAGE TO INCREASE NEXT FEW HRS OUT W AND GRADUALLY SPREAD E. LEFT HIGHEST POPS NRN ZNS OVERNIGHT IN AREA OF STRONGEST ASCENT NEAR AND N OF FNTL BOUNDARY. AS FOR TEMPS...EXPECT CONTINUED CAA BEHIND FNT WITH LIMITED VSBYS IN FG INITIALLY BEFORE CONVECTION ARRIVES. LOWERED MIN TEMPS ACROSS NRN ZNS IN LATEST UPDATE AS TEMPS ACROSS NRN LEA COUNTY ALREADY NR FCST LOWS. SECOND BATCH OF CONVECTION EXPECTED TO CONTINUE DEVELOPING ACROSS NRN OLD MEXICO AND MAY CLIP BREWSTER AND TERRELL COUNTIES AFT MIDNIGHT. LEFT MENTION OF SVR IN ALL ZNS WITH STRONG SHEAR AND MODEST LAPSE RATES IN PLACE TO AID ANY CONVECTION THAT ATTEMPTS TO ORGANIZE. .MAF... TX...NONE. NM...NONE. COBB
Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 23, 3:30 PM CDT, 11 hours 32 minutes before
NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075- 079>082-258-241000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 330 PM CDT WED OCT 23 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO. .TONIGHT... THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TONIGHT ACROSS MUCH OF WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO. THE BEST CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE GENERALLY EAST OF AN ARTESIA...TO MARFA...TO LAJITAS LINE. A FEW OF THE STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP WILL LIKELY BECOME SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE MAIN THREATS. IN ADDITION... DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL ACCOMPANY MOST OF THE STORMS AS WELL. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY TONIGHT. .THURSDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY FOR THE AREA. THE MAIN RISKS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 6:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 4 days |
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.