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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Midland/Odessa, TX

May 31, 2005Mitchell County, Texas

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2005, 7:41 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 31, 2005, 7:41 PM CDT (00:41 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 2005, 8:45 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Midland/Odessa, TX
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Mitchell County, TX

The radar

The San Angelo radar (KSJT), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 31, 7:05 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Midland Regional, TX (KMAF), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 127 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 2005-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2005-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 42 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3403 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Midland/Odessa, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 31, 1:57 PM CDT, 5 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 31, 1:57 PM CDT, 5 hours 44 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, May 31, 1:48 PM CDT, 5 hours 53 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
148 PM CDT TUE MAY 31 2005

NMZ027>029-033-034-TXZ045>048-050>053-057>063-067>070-074-075-
079>082-258-011848-
ANDREWS-BIG BEND AREA-BORDEN-CENTRAL LEA COUNTY-CRANE-
DAVIS/APACHE MOUNTAINS AREA-DAWSON-ECTOR-EDDY COUNTY PLAINS-GAINES-
GLASSCOCK-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS-GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS OF EDDY COUNTY-
HOWARD-LOVING-MARFA PLATEAU-MARTIN-MIDLAND-MITCHELL-
NORTHERN LEA COUNTY-PECOS-PRESIDIO VALLEY-REAGAN-
REEVES COUNTY AND UPPER TRANS PECOS-SCURRY-SOUTHERN LEA COUNTY-
TERRELL-UPTON-VAN HORN AND HIGHWAY 54 CORRIDOR-WARD-WINKLER-
148 PM CDT TUE MAY 31 2005 (1248 PM MDT TUE MAY 31 2005)

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST TEXAS AND SOUTHEASTERN
NEW MEXICO.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS EVENING OVER THE OUTLOOK AREA AS AN
UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM MOVES ACROSS THE REGION.  SOME OF THE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SEVERE OVER THE PERMIAN BASIN AND THE EXTREME
EASTERN SECTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEW MEXICO.  THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS... HOWEVER ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE
POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY OVER THE EASTERN PERMIAN BASIN AND THE WESTERN
LOW ROLLING PLAINS.  FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND VERY
HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO OCCUR WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS.

AFTER MIDNIGHT...A THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER
THE HIGH PLAINS OF WEST TEXAS AND EASTERN NEW MEXICO.  THIS COMPLEX
WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST OVER THE EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE PERMIAN BASIN
AND THE WESTERN LOW ROLLING PLAINS.  SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS IN
THE COMPLEX MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THE
MAIN THREATS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE THE
REST OF THE WEEK.  THE BEST CHANCE WILL BE THURSDAY NIGHT INTO
FRIDAY.  SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...AND HEAVY RAIN ARE THE PRIMARY
CONCERNS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY THROUGH THE EVENING. LOCAL OFFICIALS
ACROSS THE AREA SHOULD KEEP ABREAST OF THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION
AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK ACTION SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER APPROACH
THIS EVENING.

THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WATCHES...WARNINGS...ADVISORIES...
AND STATEMENTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN
MIDLAND CAN BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET AT (LOWER CASE)
HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MIDLAND

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 31, 7:08 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIDLAND/ODESSA TX
708 PM CDT TUE MAY 31 2005

TXZ052-010045-
HOWARD TX-
708 PM CDT TUE MAY 31 2005

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT...

THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS FOR EASTERN HOWARD COUNTY.

A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER COAHOMA AND INTERSTATE 20
AT 708 PM CDT...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

THIS STORM IS INTENSIFYING AND HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE.
HAIL AND WINDS GUSTS OVER 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE.

PEOPLE IN EASTERN HOWARD COUNTY SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION
CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR WARNINGS AND REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER
CONDITIONS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 8:33 PM CDTTornado WarningMAFMitchell57 min
May 31, 9:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMitchell35 min
May 31, 9:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFBorden, Scurry57 min
May 31, 10:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMAFMitchell51 min

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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.