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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

March 29, 2002Howard County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 2002, 7:44 PM CST for Howard 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 as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 29, 2002, 7:44 PM CST (01:44 UTC)
Expired: Mar 29, 2002, 8:30 PM CST
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Howard County, TX

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 29, 7:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 82 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: 305 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2596 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

127 
WUUS54 KMAF 300144
SVRMAF
TXC227-300230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
742 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 830 PM CST

* AT 742 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF BIG SPRING 
  TO 11 MILES SOUTH OF BIG SPRING...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE...BIG SPRING...
  SOUTH HAVEN...ELBOW...SAND SPRINGS...AND COAHOMA

LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAINS ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

LAT...LON 3248 10162 3247 10167 3242 10167 3211 10152
          3210 10118 3251 10119 3251 10155

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 29, 6:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector, Midland	67 min
Mar 29, 6:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell	26 min
Mar 29, 7:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	55 min
Mar 29, 8:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell	39 min
Mar 29, 10:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Winkler	39 min
Mar 30, 12:52 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	38 min
Mar 30, 3:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Gaines	29 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.