Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2002, 5:07 PM CDT for Midland County, Upton County, Texas. It was in force for 38 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
- May 7, 2002, 5:07 PM CDT (22:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2002, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Midland County, TX, Upton County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:09 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 5:20 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Spraberry, TX | Quarter size hail was reported to have covered Highway 3095. Public report. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 1547 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -270 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1459 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMAF 072207 SVRMAF TXC329-461-072245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 506 PM CDT TUE MAY 7 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN MIDLAND COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS NORTHEASTERN UPTON COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS * UNTIL 545 PM CDT * AT 506 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF MIDKIFF...OR ABOUT 27 MILES SOUTH OF MIDLAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... MIDKIFF HAIL TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS AND WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. LAT...LON 3153 10221 3145 10196 3167 10178 3181 10197
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 50 min |
| May 7, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland, Upton | 44 min |
| May 7, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock, Midland | 60 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.