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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 26, 2002Pecos County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2002, 8:33 PM CDT for Pecos County, Texas. It was in force for 27 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: May 26, 2002, 8:33 PM CDT (01:33 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pecos County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 176 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 26, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 176 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: 904 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2410 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KMAF 270133
SVRMAF
TXC371-270200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
832 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN PECOS COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 832 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHERN PECOS COUNTY...OR ABOUT 22 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF SANDERSON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER OPEN RANGELAND WEST OF U.S. 285.  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 3042 10276 3027 10257 3030 10240 3041 10239
          3057 10257

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Winkler	42 min
May 26, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	47 min
May 26, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	42 min
May 26, 11:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	46 min
May 27, 9:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	38 min
May 27, 11:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	66 min
May 27, 12:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	37 min
May 27, 1:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Scurry	46 min
May 27, 2:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell	39 min
May 27, 2:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Pecos	34 min
May 27, 3:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Mitchell	23 min
May 27, 3:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Andrews	40 min
May 27, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Mitchell	20 min
May 27, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	42 min
May 27, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Terrell	35 min
May 27, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Ector	40 min
May 27, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson	50 min
May 27, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Upton	27 min
May 27, 4:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MAF	Ector, Midland	40 min
May 27, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	59 min
May 27, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Dawson	32 min
May 27, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Martin	30 min
May 27, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Midland	44 min
May 27, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Howard	53 min
May 27, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MAF	Glasscock	61 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.