Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 331, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 30, 2004, 5:54 PM CDT for Crane County, Texas. It was in force for 51 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 30, 2004, 5:54 PM CDT (22:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 30, 2004, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 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), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:54 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 1489 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1057 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMAF 302254 SVRMAF TXC103-302345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 553 PM CDT MON AUG 30 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CRANE COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 548 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A DEVELOPIENG SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES NORTH OF CRANE NEAR U.S. HIGHWAY 385...MOVING WEST AT 5 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... U.S. HIGHWAY 385 NORTH OF CRANE... CRANE... 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 3137 10272 3123 10233 3166 10233 3163 10275 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 60 min |
| Aug 30, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden | 62 min |
| Aug 30, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 56 min |
| Aug 30, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Scurry | 56 min |
| Aug 30, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Borden | 46 min |
| Aug 30, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Upton | 52 min |
| Aug 30, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 67 min |
| Aug 30, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 57 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.