Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 21, 2004, 5:40 PM CDT for Andrews County, Texas. It was in force for 50 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
- Aug 21, 2004, 5:40 PM CDT (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 21, 2004, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Andrews County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:42 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 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 1022 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -196 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1233 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMAF 212240 SVRMAF TXC003-212345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 539 PM CDT SAT AUG 21 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ANDREWS COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ANDREWS * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 537 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ANDREWS...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ANDREWS... 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 3248 10291 3213 10294 3211 10224 3244 10223 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Glasscock | 53 min |
| Aug 21, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 50 min |
| Aug 21, 4:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Reagan | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Reagan | 58 min |
| Aug 21, 4:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 48 min |
| Aug 21, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 62 min |
| Aug 21, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 52 min |
| Aug 21, 5:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Upton | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 6:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Martin | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 6:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MAF | Andrews | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Pecos | 51 min |
| Aug 21, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 65 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.