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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 12, 2003Reeves County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2003, 5:05 PM CDT for Reeves County, Texas. It was in force for 40 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 12, 2003, 5:05 PM CDT (22:05 UTC)
Expired
May 12, 2003, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Reeves County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:06 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 157 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2003-05-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Midland Regional, TX at 12:00Z on 2003-05-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 172 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1383 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
172 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
200 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.9

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The text

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

438 
WUUS54 KMAF 122205
SVRMAF
TXC389-122245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
505 PM CDT MON MAY 12 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN REEVES COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 505 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF SARAGOSA...OR ABOUT 26
  MILES SOUTH OF PECOS...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
  VERHALEN AND SARAGOSA

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 3113 10373 3088 10368 3081 10358 3102 10336
          3120 10323 3141 10327

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 12, 3:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFJeff Davis63 min
May 12, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFJeff Davis45 min
May 12, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBrewster50 min
May 12, 6:28 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFBrewster47 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.