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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2002, 7:59 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 61 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 2002, 7:59 PM CDT (00:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pecos County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:01 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 10, 8:19 PM CDT | Hail 4.5 | Ft Stockton, TX | Hail up to the size of softballs produced widespread damage on the north and east side of Fort Stockton. The KOA campground east of Ft. Stockton was significantly damaged. Wind blown hail stones drove holes into the north facing sides of mobile homes. There |
| May 10, 8:49 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Ft Stockton, TX | A brief tornado was reported by a television meteorologist. |
| May 10, 9:10 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Ft Stockton, TX | Trained spotters reported golfball size hail breaking car and residential windows 8 to 10 miles east of Fort Stockton near Interstate 10. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 1926 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1619 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMAF 110059 SVRMAF TXC371-110200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 758 PM CDT FRI MAY 10 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PECOS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 757 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF FORT STOCKTON...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. A SECOND SEVERE STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTH OF IMPERIAL. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...FORT STOCKTON...BELDING...AND GIRVIN. DESTRUCTIVE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF TENNIS BALLS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS-TAKE COVER NOW. GO TO THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING AND AVOID WINDOWS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 59 min |
| May 10, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 56 min |
| May 10, 8:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MAF | Pecos | 29 min |
| May 10, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 44 min |
| May 10, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 48 min |
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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.