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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

April 26, 2004Crane County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 2004, 1:31 AM CDT for Crane County, Texas. It was in force for 44 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
Apr 26, 2004, 1:31 AM CDT (06:31 UTC)
Expired
Apr 26, 2004, 2:15 AM CDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Crane County, TX

The radar

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:30 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 nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 75 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 00:00Z on 2004-04-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 9 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2004-04-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
9 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3467 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
20 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.

402 
WUUS54 KMAF 260631
SVRMAF
TXC103-260715-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
130 AM CDT MON APR 26 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CRANE COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS

* UNTIL 215 AM CDT

* AT 120 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED 
  A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL 
  SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS 
  WERE LOCATED FROM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF CRANE TO TUBBS CORNER TO 
  8 MILES WEST OF TUBBS CORNER....AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. 
  THE STRONGEST CELL IN THE LINE WAS NEAR TUBBS CORNER.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS INCLUDE...
  CRANE AND CORDONA LAKE.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING MEANS THAT SEVERE WEATHER IS OCCURRING
OR IS IMMINENT. WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH... HAIL THREE-QUARTERS
OF AN INCH IN DIAMETER OR LARGER... VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING ARE ALL LIKELY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE STORM
MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER NOW.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ONLY...CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
FORECAST OFFICE IN MIDLAND AT 1 800 597 3220.

LAT...LON 3150 10272 3132 10276 3132 10262 3128 10258
          3126 10249 3110 10233 3156 10231

$$

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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.