Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 20, 2004, 8:01 PM CST for Howard County, Texas. It was in force for 29 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
- Mar 20, 2004, 8:01 PM CST (02:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2004, 8:30 PM CST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Howard County, TX
The radar
The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:02 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 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 1698 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1944 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
086 WUUS54 KMAF 210201 SVRMAF TXC227-210230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX 801 PM CST SAT MAR 20 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN HOWARD COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS * UNTIL 830 PM CST * AT 801 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BIG SPRING...MOVING WEST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... BIG SPRING...SOUTH HAVEN...LUTHER...LOMAX...FAIRVIEW AND ELBOW LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAINS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. LAT...LON 3237 10170 3210 10169 3210 10132 3249 10135 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 6:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Mitchell | 61 min |
| Mar 20, 6:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Howard | 62 min |
| Mar 20, 8:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Winkler | 25 min |
| Mar 20, 8:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Martin | 42 min |
| Mar 20, 8:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Loving | 38 min |
| Mar 20, 9:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Midland | 56 min |
| Mar 20, 9:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Andrews | 47 min |
| Mar 20, 9:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Ector | 64 min |
| Mar 20, 9:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Winkler | 64 min |
| Mar 20, 11:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MAF | Winkler | 60 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Texas, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004
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.