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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

March 30, 2002Gaines County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 2002, 3:16 AM CST for Gaines County, Texas. It was in force for 29 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: Mar 30, 2002, 3:16 AM CST (09:16 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2002, 3:45 AM CST
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Gaines County, TX

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 30, 3:18 AM CST	Hail 1	Seminole, TX

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 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 100 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.

212 
WUUS54 KMAF 300916
SVRMAF
TXC165-300945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
314 AM CST SAT MAR 30 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL GAINES COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 345 AM CST

* AT 314 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR SEMINOLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
  SEMINOLE

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE 
COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

LAT...LON 3274 10280 3266 10264 3277 10253 3285 10264

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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, 7:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	46 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

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.