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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

March 24, 2004Scurry County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 2004, 5:22 PM CST for Scurry County, Texas. It was in force for 38 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 24, 2004, 5:22 PM CST (23:22 UTC)
Expired
Mar 24, 2004, 6:00 PM CST
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Scurry County, TX

The radar

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:25 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 146 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 2004-03-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 274 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2004-03-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 314 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
274 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-228 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1048 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
314 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
377 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.

000 
WUUS54 KMAF 242322
SVRMAF
TXC415-250000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
520 PM CST WED MAR 24 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIDLAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SCURRY COUNTY IN WEST TEXAS
  
* UNTIL 600 PM CST

* AT 517 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  DUNN...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH OF SNYDER...AND MOVING EAST AT 25
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE...      
  DUNN...AND RURAL AREAS ALONG HIGHWAYS 350 AND 208.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3269 10110 3254 10114 3254 10069 3282 10069
          3295 10081 3281 10104

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 24, 3:18 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFTerrell57 min
Mar 24, 5:59 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFScurry46 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.